10-letter words containing a, d, i, s, o
- occasioned — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
- odalisques — Plural form of odalisque.
- odontiasis — dentition (def 2).
- oestradiol — Alternative spelling of estradiol.
- off-island — located or tending away from the shore of an island: an off-island current.
- old danish — the Danish language as spoken and written from the 9th to the 14th centuries.
- old slavic — Old Church Slavonic.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- orchardist — a person who owns, manages, or cultivates an orchard.
- ordinances — Plural form of ordinance.
- ordinaries — Plural form of ordinary.
- oscillated — Simple past tense and past participle of oscillate.
- osmic acid — a crystalline or amorphous, colorless, poisonous compound, OsO 4 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether: used for microscopic staining, in photography, and as a catalyst in organic synthesis.
- ostracised — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracise.
- ostracized — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- parodistic — parodic.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pedagogics — the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- peroxidase — any of a class of oxidoreductase enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide or an organic peroxide.
- plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- polydipsia — excessive thirst.
- pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- quasi-good — morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
- quo vadis? — where are you going?
- quotidians — Plural form of quotidian.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radio mast — transmission tower
- radio star — a radio source.
- radiolysis — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- radiosonde — an instrument that is carried aloft by a balloon to send back information on atmospheric temperature, pressure, and humidity by means of a small radio transmitter.
- radius rod — (in a feathering paddle wheel) any of the rods, meeting in a hub mounted eccentrically with the paddle-wheel shaft, for feathering the paddles while in the water.
- raised bog — a bog of convex shape produced by growth of sphagnum and other bog plants in acid conditions and the subsequent build up of acid peat
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.