10-letter words containing c, o, p, r, e
- entoprocts — Plural form of entoproct.
- eolotropic — Alternative spelling of aeolotropic.
- epimorphic — (zoology, of an insect larva) That becomes segmented prior to hatching.
- europhobic — hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- except for — You use except for to introduce the only thing or person that prevents a statement from being completely true.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- exospheric — Of or pertaining to an exosphere.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- fiberscope — an optical instrument consisting of a fiber bundle with an objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other, for viewing objects not accessible to direct viewing.
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- french pox — (in historical use) syphilis.
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- geomorphic — of or relating to the form of the earth or the forms of its surface.
- glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- gyrocopter — autogiro.
- gyroscopes — Plural form of gyroscope.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- horoscopes — Plural form of horoscope.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypocenter — focus (def 5).
- hypocentre — (geology) The focus of an earthquake, directly under the epicentre.