10-letter words containing m, o, r, p, h
- prohormone — the inactive precursor molecule from which a hormone is derived.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- push broom — a wide broom with a long handle, pushed by hand and used for sweeping large areas.
- pyrrhonism — the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
- rhinophyma — a red-coloured bump or bumps on the nose which form as a result of enlarged sebaceous glands and rosacea
- rhizomorph — a cordlike fusion of hyphae that leads certain fungi across various substrates like a root through soil.
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- sophomoric — of or relating to a sophomore or sophomores.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
- tomography — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
- xenomorphs — Plural form of xenomorph.
- zoomorphic — of or relating to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal.
- zygomorphy — The quality of being zygomorphic.