10-letter words containing o, p
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- appetition — a desire or craving directed towards a specific object, goal, or purpose
- apple core — the inedible part of an apple which contains the pips
- applicator — An applicator is a device that you use to put something somewhere when you do not want to touch it or do it with your hands.
- appointees — a person who is appointed.
- appointers — Plural form of appointer.
- appointing — Present participle of appoint.
- appointive — relating to or filled by appointment
- appointors — Plural form of appointor.
- appomattox — a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War
- apportions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apportion.
- appositely — In an apposite manner.
- apposition — If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in 'Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago.'
- appositive — standing in apposition
- approached — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- approacher — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- approaches — Plural form of approach.
- approbated — Simple past tense and past participle of approbate.
- approvable — able to be approved
- approvably — in an approvable manner
- approvance — approval
- approvedly — So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
- approximal — situated side by side; close together
- aprication — the act of sunbathing or basking in the sun
- april fool — An April Fool is a trick that is played on April Fool's Day.
- apropos of — with regard to; in respect of
- apterygote — belonging or pertaining to the Apterygota, a subclass of primitive wingless insects that undergo little or no metamorphosis.
- aquaphobia — an abnormal fear of water, esp because of the possibility of drowning
- aquaphobic — abnormally afraid of water
- aquaponics — a farming system that circulates wastewater from animal aquaculture to hydroponically cultivated plants, whereby the plants draw nutrients from the waste and filter the water, allowing for its recycled use by the aquatic animals.
- aquaporins — Plural form of aquaporin.
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archespore — the cell or group of cells in a sporangium that gives rise to spores
- archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
- archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
- arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
- arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- area opaca — the opaque area of the blastoderm surrounding the area pellucida.
- areography — the description of the physical features, such as the surface, atmosphere, etc, of the planet Mars
- areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
- aristotype — a process of photographic printing in which paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin is used.
- armipotent — strong in arms or war
- army corps — a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
- army group — the largest operational formation of military land forces, normally comprising two or more armies or army corps under a designated commander.
- arpeggione — a stringed musical instrument of the early 19th century which was played with a bow
- arthropoda — the phylum comprising the arthropods.
- arthropods — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually a chitinous shell that undergoes moltings, including the insects, spiders and other arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods.
- artocarpus — a genus of the mulberry family, originating in Asia, species of which include the jackfruit and the breadfruit
- aryl group — any organic group derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon by the removal of a hydrogen atom, as phenyl, C 6 H 5 −, from benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- ascocarpic — relating to an ascocarp