10-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a, t
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- importable — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- interpolar — connecting or being between poles: an interpolar flight.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- kapok tree — any of several tropical bombacaceous trees of the genus Ceiba, esp Ceiba pentandra, having seeds covered with silky hairs from which kapok is obtained
- karyotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of karyotype.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- kryptonate — (inorganic chemistry) To infuse a solid with krypton gas (especially with radioactive krypton-85).
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- monopteral — having the form of a monopteron.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.