10-letter words containing a, c, r, o, y
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- radiolytic — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- rallycross — a form of motor sport in which cars race over a one-mile circuit of rough grass with some hard-surfaced sections
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock hyrax — an African and Middle Eastern hyrax of the genus Procavia that lives in rocky places.
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rockabilly — a style of popular music combining the features of rock-'n'-roll and hillbilly music.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- schoolyard — a playground or sports field near a school.
- slavocracy — the rule or domination of slaveholders: the slavocracy of the old plantations.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- sociocracy — a theoretical system of government in which the interests of all members of society are served equally.
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- synchronal — synchronous.
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
- tobramycin — a highly toxic aminoglycoside antibiotic, C 18 H 37 N 5 O 9 , derived from Streptomyces tenebarius, used in the treatment of serious infections due to susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- trajectory — the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
- tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.
- varicotomy — surgical removal of a varicose vein.
- vocabulary — the stock of words used by or known to a particular people or group of persons: His French vocabulary is rather limited. The scientific vocabulary is constantly growing.
- your-grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- zygobranch — a creature belonging to the Zygobranchia genus, which includes molluscs with paired gills