10-letter words containing e, y, t
- odorimetry — the measurement of the strength and permanence of odours
- on liberty — a treatise (1859) by John Stuart Mill on the rights of the individual within the state.
- on the fly — to move through the air using wings.
- on the sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- on the way — en route
- one-eighty — a turn or reversal of 180 degrees.
- opotherapy — organotherapy.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optatively — In an optative way.
- orchectomy — orchiectomy.
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- orientally — In an oriental manner.
- orthometry — The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct poetry.
- orthophyre — feldspar rock
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- osteectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- ostensibly — outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness.
- osteocytes — Plural form of osteocyte.
- osteolysis — The pathological destruction or disappearance of bone tissue.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- osteometry — the anthropometric measurement of bones.
- osteopathy — a therapeutic system originally based upon the premise that manipulation of the muscles and bones to promote structural integrity could restore or preserve health: current osteopathic physicians use the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of conventional medicine as well as manipulative measures.
- osteophyte — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- otto cycle — an idealization of the thermodynamic cycle of the internal combustion engine with air as the working substance: intake of air at atmospheric pressure, then adiabatic compression, then ignition with an increase of pressure and temperature at constant volume, then adiabatic expansion and performance of work, then a drop to atmospheric pressure at constant volume and a rejection of heat to the environment, then the exhaust of air at constant pressure.
- outdatedly — in an outdated manner
- outmodedly — In an outmoded manner.
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- overmighty — too forceful
- overstayer — a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired
- overstorey — the highest level of trees in a rainforest
- overtimely — untimely
- oxidimetry — a technique of analytical chemistry that utilizes oxidizing agents for titrations.
- oxygenated — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- oxygenator — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- oyster bay — a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby.
- oyster bed — a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- parentally — of or relating to a parent.
- paroxytone — having an acute accent on the next to the last syllable.
- party game — a game played at a party, esp at a children's party
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- party time — the season for parties
- party-goer — A party-goer is someone who likes going to parties or someone who is at a particular party.
- paternally — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.