10-letter words containing o, n, p
- componency — the quality of being in components
- components — A part or element of a larger whole, esp. a part of a machine or vehicle.
- composting — the activity or practice of converting garden and kitchen waste to compost
- compound q — trichosanthin: an antiviral drug derived from the root of a Chinese cucumber plant, used in the treatment of AIDS.
- compounded — If something is compounded of different things, it is a mixture of those things.
- compounder — A person who mixes or combines ingredients in order to produce an animal feed, medicine, or other substance.
- comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprizing — Present participle of comprize.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- concepcion — an industrial city in S central Chile. Pop: 378 000 (2005 est)
- concepting — a general notion or idea; conception.
- conception — A conception of something is an idea that you have of it in your mind.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- concipient — conceptive
- cone plant — any dwarf succulent of the genus Conophytum, native to southern Africa.
- conjure up — If you conjure up a memory, picture, or idea, you create it in your mind.
- connect up — link or join together
- conniption — a fit of rage or tantrums
- conscripts — Plural form of conscript.
- conspectus — an overall view; survey
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- conspiring — of or involved in a conspiracy
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- contracept — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- contrapose — to place in contraposition.
- contraprop — a contrapropeller
- contrecoup — an injury, esp to the brain, that occurs at the opposite side of the body from that which was struck
- cooptation — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- coparcener — a person who inherits an estate as coheir with others
- copartners — Plural form of copartner.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- copenhagen — the capital of Denmark, a port on Zealand and the Amager Islands on a site inhabited for some 6000 years: exports chiefly agricultural products; iron and steel works; university (1479). Pop: 501 664 (2004 est)
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- copernicus — Nicolaus (ˌnɪkəˈleɪəs). Polish name Mikołaj Kopernik. 1473–1543, Polish astronomer, whose theory of the solar system (the Copernican system) was published in 1543
- coping saw — a handsaw with a U-shaped frame used for cutting curves in a material too thick for a fret saw
- coplotting — the act of plotting points for two different sets of data together on the same graph
- coppermine — river in Nunavut & Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing northwest into the Arctic Ocean: 525 mi (845 km)
- copperskin — a Native American
- coppertone — a reddish-brown color.
- copresence — the presence of multiple things together
- coprisoner — a fellow prisoner
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.