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10-letter words containing d, o, p

  • prodromata — signs or symptoms revealing the onset of a disease
  • producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
  • production — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
  • productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • profounder — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
  • proglottid — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
  • programmed — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
  • progressed — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
  • prohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
  • prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
  • pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
  • pronounced — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
  • propagated — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • propendent — inclining forward or outward
  • propertied — owning property: the propertied class.
  • prophesied — to foretell or predict.
  • proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
  • propounder — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
  • proscribed — condemned or prohibited
  • prose edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
  • proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
  • prospected — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
  • prostrated — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • proteinoid — a polymer of amino acids resembling a biological polypeptide but formed abiotically: suggested as a possible intermediate in protein development during primitive earth conditions.
  • protracted — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
  • protruding — to project.
  • proveditor — (in the Venetian republic) a senior civilian officer in charge of supplies, provisions, and artillery for the city
  • providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
  • providence — a state of the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1214 sq. mi. (3145 sq. km). Capital: Providence. Abbreviation: RI (for use with zip code), R.I.
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudo-tty — (operating system)   Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
  • pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • pseudobulb — an enlarged, aboveground portion of stem, present in many tropical orchids, in which moisture is stored.
  • pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
  • pseudocide — the act of faking one’s own death
  • pseudocode — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
  • pseudocoel — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pseudogene — a genelike section of DNA that has no apparent function
  • pseudology — lying considered as an art.
  • pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
  • pseudosuit — /soo'doh-s[y]oot"/ A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
  • pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
  • punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
  • pundigrion — a pun
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