10-letter words containing o, p, e, r, a
- jeoparding — Present participle of jeopard.
- jeopardise — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- jeopardize — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- jeopardous — perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- juan peron — Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- 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.
- kiloampère — one thousand amperes
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- 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).
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mainpernor — a person who gives a guarantee that a prisoner will appear in court
- mareograph — marigraph.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- 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).
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- mobe pearl — mabe pearl.