10-letter words containing o, r, p, i
- 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.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- eccoprotic — a laxative
- echopraxia — the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- edo period — the period of Japanese history from 1603 to 1867, when Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shoguns
- emmetropia — The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina.
- emmetropic — Pertaining to emmetropia.
- empowering — Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
- encopresis — Involuntary defecation, especially associated with emotional disturbance or psychiatric disorder.
- encryption — (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- enoxaparin — A heparin of low molecular weight used to prevent and treat deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.
- eolotropic — Alternative spelling of aeolotropic.
- epeirogeny — (geomorphology) broad regional upwarp of the cratonic portions of continents.
- epidermoid — Of, pertaining to or composed of epidermal tissue.
- epidiorite — metamorphosed diorite, with a fibrous amphibole component
- epimorphic — (zoology, of an insect larva) That becomes segmented prior to hatching.
- epistolary — Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters.
- epistrophe — (rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
- epitomizer — An epitomist.
- ergophobia — An irrational fear of work.
- eriophorum — cotton grass
- eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
- espressivo — (to be performed) in an expressive manner
- eupatorium — (botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.
- euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.
- euphorbium — an acrid resin obtained from several species of Euphorbia, formerly used in medicine as a purgative and emetic
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- europhilia — The love of Europe, Europeans, or European culture.