10-letter words containing c, r, y, o, p, e
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypodermic — characterized by the introduction of medicine or drugs under the skin: hypodermic injection.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- inoperancy — The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- microphyte — a microscopic plant.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- necroscopy — necropsy.
- open-carry — the practice of publicly carrying a gun or other weapon that is fully or partially visible.
- orchiopexy — (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- percursory — passing through rapidly; cursory
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- 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.
- 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.
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.