10-letter words containing o, c, t, p
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cryptology — the study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoic — of or relating to that part of geological time represented by rocks in which the evidence of life is slight and the life forms are primitive; pre-Phanerozoic
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cuckoopint — a European aroid plant, Arum maculatum, with arrow-shaped leaves, a spathe marked with purple, a pale purple spadix, and scarlet berries
- cup of tea — a favorite or well-suited thing, activity, etc.
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanopathy — (medicine) A disease in which the surface of the body turns blue, usually arising from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood.
- cyanophyta — a phylum, or subkingdom, in the kingdom Monera, comprising the blue-green algae.
- cyanophyte — a former name for a cyanobacterium
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- cystoscope — a slender tubular medical instrument for examining the interior of the urethra and urinary bladder
- cystoscopy — examination of the urinary bladder or tract with the aid of a cystoscope
- cytopathic — of or relating to cytopathy
- cytophilic — (of antibodies, etc) having an attraction or affinity to cells
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- cytotropic — (of cells or groups of cells) growing or moving toward or away from each other.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- eccoprotic — a laxative
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectophytes — Plural form of ectophyte.
- ectoprocta — the phylum Bryozoa, especially as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.
- ectoprocts — Plural form of ectoproct.