10-letter words containing c, o, y
- play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polyaxonic — relating to a polyaxon
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polychroic — having many colours
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- polychromy — the art of employing many colors in decoration, as in painting or architecture.
- polyclinic — a clinic or a hospital dealing with various diseases.
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polyclonal — Biology. pertaining to cells or cell products derived from several lines of clones.
- polycotton — cotton and poliester blend fabric
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polycyclic — pertaining to an organic compound containing several atomic rings, usually fused.
- polycystic — containing many cysts
- polydactyl — having many or several digits.
- polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- polyhydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) polyhydroxy.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyonymic — relating to a polyonym
- polyphagic — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- polyphonic — consisting of many voices or sounds.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- polytocous — flowering multiple times during a lifetime
- pomace fly — vinegar fly.
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precursory — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
- predictory — predictive.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- 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.