10-letter words containing t, o, l, i, c
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- politician — a person who is active in party politics.
- politicize — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polycystic — containing many cysts
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- ponticello — a bridge on a stringed instrument
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- populistic — a member of the People's party.
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
- protocolic — relating to protocol
- radiolytic — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reelection — the selection of a person or persons for office by vote.
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- roscoelite — a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- school tie — old school tie.
- schooltide — schooldays
- schooltime — the period during which schools are open
- scintillon — a luminescent body present in the cytoplasm of some dinoflagellates
- sciolistic — superficial knowledge.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- shift lock — a typewriter or computer key that locks the shift key in depressed position.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- skeletonic — resembling a skeleton