10-letter words containing o, c, t, y, l
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nonfaculty — a position that is not part of an academic faculty
- nontypical — not typical; unusual
- noticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- nyctalopia — night blindness.
- nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- officialty — the office, jurisdiction, or charge of an official
- oryctology — the study of fossils, minerals, and rocks
- oscitantly — in an oscitant manner
- osculatory — to come into close contact or union.
- otto cycle — an idealization of the thermodynamic cycle of the internal combustion engine with air as the working substance: intake of air at atmospheric pressure, then adiabatic compression, then ignition with an increase of pressure and temperature at constant volume, then adiabatic expansion and performance of work, then a drop to atmospheric pressure at constant volume and a rejection of heat to the environment, then the exhaust of air at constant pressure.
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polycotton — cotton and poliester blend fabric
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polycystic — containing many cysts
- polydactyl — having many or several digits.
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- polytocous — flowering multiple times during a lifetime
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- radiolytic — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- solvolytic — relating to solvolysis
- stichology — metrical theory or the science of poetic metres
- technology — the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.
- topicality — the state or quality of being topical.
- torch lily — tritoma.