10-letter words containing s, o, l, e, p, a
- flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
- footplates — Plural form of footplate.
- gallopades — Plural form of gallopade.
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- grapelouse — an insect that attacks grape vines
- halophiles — Plural form of halophile.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- haplophase — the haploid portion of an organism's life cycle.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- heliopause — the boundary of the heliosphere.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- monoplanes — Plural form of monoplane.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.