10-letter words containing o, p, e, r
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- decomposer — any organism in a community, such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue enabling the constituents to be recycled to the environment
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deep floor — any of the floors toward the ends of a vessel, deeper than those of standard depth amidships.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- demirepdom — the world or society of demireps
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- deportable — liable to deportation
- deportment — Your deportment is the way you behave, especially the way you walk and move.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depositors — Plural form of depositor.
- depository — A depository is a place where objects can be stored safely.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- depressors — Plural form of depressor.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- developers — Plural form of developer.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- dispersoid — the suspended particles in a dispersion.
- disprofess — to renounce the profession of
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- 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.