10-letter words containing a, c, e, s, p, o
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- episcopacy — Government of a church by bishops.
- episcopant — a bishop
- episcopate — The office or term of office of a bishop.
- escapology — The study or art of escaping from a constriction, e.g. rope, handcuffs, etc.
- ethnoscape — A transnational distribution of correlated people.
- hagioscope — squint (def 13).
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- 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.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- 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.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- moonscapes — Plural form of moonscape.
- 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.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- open space — Ecology. undeveloped land that is protected from development by legislation.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pedagogics — the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.
- 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.
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- pescadores — (used with a plural verb) Penghu.
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- pollen sac — one of the cavities in an anther in which pollen is produced.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.