10-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a
- can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
- canephoros — in ancient Greece, any of the maidens who carried on her head a basket holding the sacred things used at feasts
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capreolate — possessing or resembling tendrils
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- cardphones — Plural form of cardphone.
- carpophore — the central column surrounded by carpels in such flowers as the geranium
- carpospore — a sexual spore produced by red algae after fertilization of the carpogonium
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chaparejos — chaps1
- chaperoned — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperones — Plural form of chaperone.
- chaperonin — A protein that aids the assembly and folding of other protein molecules in living cells.
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- co-operate — If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate.
- co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- contracept — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- contrapose — to place in contraposition.
- cooperated — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cooperate.
- cooperator — to work or act together or jointly for a common purpose or benefit.
- coparcener — a person who inherits an estate as coheir with others
- copartners — Plural form of copartner.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copernican — of or relating to Copernicus or his theories.
- copper age — a phase in some human cultures between a Stone Age and a Bronze Age, characterized by the introduction and development of copper tools and weapons: in the Old World this phase is commonly thought of as being part of their Bronze Age
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- copperware — Articles made from copper.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short