10-letter words containing c, r, o, t
- per contra — on the other hand; on the contrary.
- perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perceptron — 1. A single McCulloch-Pitts neuron. 2. A network of neurons in which the output(s) of some neurons are connected through weighted connections to the input(s) of other neurons. A multilayer perceptron is a specific instance of this.
- percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- pernoctate — to stay all night
- persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- picrotoxin — a white, crystalline, bitter, poisonous, central nervous system stimulant, C 3 0 H 3 4 O 1 3 , obtained from the seeds of Anamirta cocculus: used chiefly in the treatment of barbiturate poisoning.
- pictograph — pictogram
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- porrection — the act of holding something out for presentation or acceptance
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- porto rico — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
- postcrisis — taking place after a crisis
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postscript — a paragraph, phrase, etc., added to a letter that has already been concluded and signed by the writer.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- prebiotics — natural substances in some foods that encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- precompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- preconceit — a preconceived idea; a preconception
- preconcert — preceding a concert: a preconcert reception for sponsors.
- precontact — prior contact
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- prediction — an act of predicting.
- predictory — predictive.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- premeiotic — occurring before the start of meiosis
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotence — the quality of being prepotent
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- prick-post — (in a framed structure) a secondary post, as a queen post.