10-letter words containing a, m, p, c, o
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- panic room — a secure room with a separate telephone line within a house, to which a person can flee if someone breaks in
- pantomimic — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- pentatomic — having five atoms in the molecule
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- pharmacol. — pharmacology
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phonematic — phonemic.
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- pomace fly — vinegar fly.
- postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- someplaces — somewhere
- spacewoman — a woman astronaut.
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
- subcompact — an automobile that is smaller than a compact.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- swampscott — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- uncompared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.