10-letter words containing i, n, o, p, r
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- empowering — Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- encryption — (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- enoxaparin — A heparin of low molecular weight used to prevent and treat deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.
- epeirogeny — (geomorphology) broad regional upwarp of the cratonic portions of continents.
- eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- expression — The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hot spring — a thermal spring having water warmer than 98°F (37°C): the water is usually heated by emanation from or passage near hot or molten rock.
- hydroponic — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypnotizer — One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- hypodorian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the ascending diatonic scale from A to A
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- import ban — a ban on the importation of certain products from a certain country into the home country
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- importuned — Simple past tense and past participle of importune.
- importuner — One who importunes.
- importunes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of importune.
- impowering — Present participle of impower.
- impression — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- imprisoned — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- imprisoner — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- improve on — refine, develop
- in corpore — in body; in substance.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.