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10-letter words containing a, s, u, p, l

  • leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
  • lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
  • lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
  • lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
  • lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
  • marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
  • melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
  • menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
  • multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
  • municipals — Plural form of municipal.
  • musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
  • neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
  • null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
  • nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
  • outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
  • palaverous — a conference or discussion.
  • palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
  • palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
  • panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
  • paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
  • parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
  • paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
  • pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
  • pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
  • pausefully — in a pauseful manner
  • pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
  • pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
  • peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
  • plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
  • plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
  • play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
  • plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
  • polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
  • polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
  • pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
  • postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
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