10-letter words containing o, p, s, i
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- despoiling — plundering by force
- desponding — to be depressed by loss of hope, confidence, or courage.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotisms — Plural form of despotism.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diphyllous — having two leaves.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disespouse — to divorce from (a spouse)
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- dispassion — the state or quality of being unemotional or emotionally uninvolved.
- dispeopled — Simple past tense and past participle of dispeople.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispeoples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispeople.
- 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.
- disphenoid — bisphenoid.
- dispiteous — malicious; cruel; pitiless.
- displosion — (obsolete) explosion.
- dispondaic — of or relating to a dispondee
- disporting — Present participle of disport.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- dispose of — to give a tendency or inclination to; incline: His temperament disposed him to argue readily with people.