10-letter words containing l, a, s, p, e
- misapplies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapply.
- misexplain — (transitive) To explain incorrectly.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- monoplanes — Plural form of monoplane.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- nameplates — Plural form of nameplate.
- 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.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- 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
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- 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.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- 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.
- paper loss — an investment loss which has occurred but not yet been realized
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- 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.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- 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
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
- paso doble — a quick, light march often played at bullfights.
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner