10-letter words containing o, d, p, r, i
- dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- dispersoid — the suspended particles in a dispersion.
- disporting — Present participle of disport.
- dispositor — a planet that controls the star sign in which another planet is located
- disprofess — to renounce the profession of
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- disworship — to refuse to revere or worship
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- door prize — a prize awarded at a dance, party, or the like, either by chance through a drawing or as a reward, as for having the best costume.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- drainspout — downspout.
- 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.
- 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
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- epidermoid — Of, pertaining to or composed of epidermal tissue.
- epidiorite — metamorphosed diorite, with a fibrous amphibole component
- expeditors — Plural form of expeditor.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- fruit drop — the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
- gossiprede — (obsolete) The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
- graphitoid — resembling graphite
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hippodrome — an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.