10-letter words containing c, o, m, p
- 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
- computable — computability theory
- computator — a person who computes or calculates
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- 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
- cosmopolis — an international city
- couplement — the action of coupling or the state of being coupled
- 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
- cymophenol — (organic compound) synonym of carvacrol.
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- 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.
- decomposed — having been subject to decomposition
- 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
- decomposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decompose.
- decompound — (of a compound leaf) having leaflets consisting of several distinct parts
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- 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.
- empedocles — ?490–430 bc, Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord
- epagomenic — Intercalary.
- epigenomic — (genetics) Describing a representation of the gene expression, DNA methylation and histone modification status of a particular genomic region.
- epimorphic — (zoology, of an insect larva) That becomes segmented prior to hatching.
- epitomical — Epitomic.
- eponychium — (anatomy) cuticle (thickened layer of skin on fingernails and toenails).
- 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.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.
- hippocampi — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- homoleptic — (chemistry) Describing an organometallic compound having a single type of ligand.