10-letter words containing a, p, o, r, i, s
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- drainspout — downspout.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- epistolary — Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters.
- euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.
- evaporites — Plural form of evaporite.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- gasparovic — Ivan. born 1941, Slovakian politician, president of Slovakia (2004–14)
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- impresario — a person who organizes or manages public entertainments, especially operas, ballets, or concerts.
- infraposed — placed beneath
- inspirator — An inspirer, one that inspires.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jeopardies — Plural form of jeopardy.
- jeopardise — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- misprogram — to program badly or wrongly
- muciparous — muciferous.
- nonaspirin — (of a medicine) not containing aspirin
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- orpharions — Plural form of orpharion.
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- parabiosis — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- parodistic — parodic.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.