10-letter words containing i, p, r
- drag strip — a straight, paved area or course where drag races are held, as a section of road or airplane runway.
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- drainpipes — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dress ship — to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
- drill pipe — (in oil-well drilling or the like) any of several coupled tubes for rotating the bit and supplying drilling mud.
- drill ship — A drill ship is a ship which has been modified to include a drilling rig.
- drip grind — finely ground coffee beans, used in making drip coffee.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- eccoprotic — a laxative
- echopraxia — the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.
- ecmascript — (language) (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
- ecphractic — having the property of removing obstructions
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- edo period — the period of Japanese history from 1603 to 1867, when Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shoguns
- ekphrastic — Pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid.
- emmetropia — The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina.
- emmetropic — Pertaining to emmetropia.
- emparadise — to turn (a place or state) into a paradise
- empathizer — One who empathizes.
- emphractic — medication that closes the pores of the skin
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- empiricism — The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
- empiricist — An advocate or supporter of empiricism.
- empowering — Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
- empurpling — Present participle of empurple.
- enciphered — Simple past tense and past participle of encipher.
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- encrypting — Present participle of encrypt.
- 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...