10-letter words containing c, o, p, e, s
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- correspond — If one thing corresponds to another, there is a close similarity or connection between them. You can also say that two things correspond.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cost price — If something is sold at cost price, it is sold for the same price as it cost the seller to buy it.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- cowpersons — Plural form of cowperson.
- creepmouse — an informal tickling game played with small children
- crepe sole — a shoe sole made of crepe rubber
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- crosspiece — a transverse beam, joist, etc
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cystoscope — a slender tubular medical instrument for examining the interior of the urethra and urinary bladder
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- 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.
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- deep focus — the focusing of a filmed scene so as to make near and distant objects equally clear.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- ecospecies — a taxon consisting of one or more interbreeding ecotypes: equivalent to a taxonomic species.
- ecphonesis — the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”.
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- ectoprocts — Plural form of ectoproct.
- 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
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- endoscopes — Plural form of endoscope.
- endoscopic — Of, or relating to endoscopy or an endoscope.