10-letter words containing c, o, a, p, t
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
- politician — a person who is active in party politics.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polydactyl — having many or several digits.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- 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.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- 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.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- precontact — prior contact
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- 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.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- procreator — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- proctorage — the duty of a proctor
- procurator — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- protectant — a substance, as a chemical spray, that provides protection, as against insects, frost, rust, etc.; protective agent.
- protocolar — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- protracted — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- protractor — a person or thing that protracts.
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- punctation — punctate condition or marking.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- quadcopter — A rotorcraft propelled by four rotors.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.