10-letter words containing c, o, m, p, r
- comprizing — Present participle of comprize.
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- compromize — Misspelling of compromise.
- compu$erve — (Or "CompuSpend", "Compu$pend") A pejorative name for CompuServe Information Service (CI$) drawing attention to perceived high charges.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- compuserve — CompuServe Information Service
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- coppermine — river in Nunavut & Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing northwest into the Arctic Ocean: 525 mi (845 km)
- copperworm — a shipworm, Teredo navalis
- copromoter — a joint promoter
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- decomposer — any organism in a community, such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue enabling the constituents to be recycled to the environment
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- emmetropic — Pertaining to emmetropia.
- epimorphic — (zoology, of an insect larva) That becomes segmented prior to hatching.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- geomorphic — of or relating to the form of the earth or the forms of its surface.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homophoric — Relating to homophora.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypodermic — characterized by the introduction of medicine or drugs under the skin: hypodermic injection.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- isomorphic — Biology. different in ancestry, but having the same form or appearance.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrocarpa — (NZ) The Monterey cypress.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.