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10-letter words containing a, e, r, o, c

  • overglance — to glance over
  • overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
  • overplaced — placed above
  • overscaled — on an excessive scale
  • 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.
  • palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
  • pancreato- — pancreas
  • parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
  • 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.
  • peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
  • peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
  • 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.
  • pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
  • 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.
  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • per contra — on the other hand; on the contrary.
  • percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
  • periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
  • pernoctate — to stay all night
  • peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • pescadores — (used with a plural verb) Penghu.
  • petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
  • petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
  • phone card — calling card (def 3).
  • pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
  • pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
  • pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
  • poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • police car — squad car.
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • ponderance — weight or significance
  • pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
  • porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
  • power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
  • pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
  • pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
  • precontact — prior contact
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
  • prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
  • pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • 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.
  • procedural — procedural language
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
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