10-letter words containing n, o, a, p
- pro-german — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- pro-indian — Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- programing — the act or process of planning or writing a program.
- prolongate — to prolong.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- pronograde — walking with the body parallel to the ground
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
- propellant — a propelling agent.
- propionate — an ester or salt of propionic acid.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proserpina — Persephone.
- protanopia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to red or green.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- protectant — a substance, as a chemical spray, that provides protection, as against insects, frost, rust, etc.; protective agent.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- protestant — any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
- protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protogenia — the first woman born after the great flood of Zeus, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- provenance — place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provitamin — a substance that an organism can transform into a vitamin, as carotene, which is converted to vitamin A in the liver.
- pteranodon — a flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Cretaceous Period, having a wingspread of about 25 feet (8 meters).
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- 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.
- punctation — punctate condition or marking.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- push along — to go away
- pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
- pyrazolone — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing the pyrazoline ring in which one carbon atom is doubly linked to an oxygen atom not in the ring.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- range pole — a conspicuously painted pole held upright to show the position of a survey mark.
- rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- renography — x-ray examination of the kidney following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.