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10-letter words containing t, a, p, l

  • optionable — the power or right of choosing.
  • optionally — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
  • osteoplast — An osteoblast.
  • outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
  • outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
  • outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
  • pack trail — a path or route suitable for pack animals
  • paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
  • paddleboat — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel.
  • paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
  • page fault — (memory management)   In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
  • palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
  • palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
  • palaestral — relating to the palaestra
  • palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
  • palatalize — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
  • palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
  • palatogram — Phonetics. a diagram or photograph obtained through palatography.
  • palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
  • palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
  • palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
  • pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
  • palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
  • palliament — a long robe
  • palliation — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
  • palliative — serving to palliate.
  • palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
  • palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
  • palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
  • palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
  • palo santo — a South American tree, Bulnesia sarmienti, of the caltrop family, yielding a fragrant essential oil.
  • palpebrate — having eyelids.
  • paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
  • panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
  • paniculate — arranged in panicles.
  • pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
  • pantaloons — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
  • papillated — having papillae
  • papillitis — the inflammation of a papilla
  • papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
  • papulation — the formation or development of papules
  • paralation — PARALlel reLATION. Sabot, MIT 1987. A framework for parallel programming. A "field" is an array of objects, placed at different sites. A paralation is a group of fields, defining nearness between field elements. Operations can be performed in parallel on every site of a paralation.
  • paralyzant — to affect with paralysis.
  • parastatal — working with the government in an unofficial capacity.
  • parcel net — a large bag made of netting attached inside (the boot or trunk of) a car and used to store loose items, such as groceries, sports equipment, or parcels, etc
  • parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
  • parentally — of or relating to a parent.
  • parenteral — taken into the body in a manner other than through the digestive canal.
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