10-letter words containing o, r, p, i
- europhobia — dislike for or hostility to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- europhobic — hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- evaporites — Plural form of evaporite.
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- exospheric — Of or pertaining to an exosphere.
- expeditors — Plural form of expeditor.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- expiratory — Of or relating to the exhalation of air from the lungs.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- exploiters — Plural form of exploiter.
- expositors — Plural form of expositor.
- expository — Intended to explain or describe something.
- expression — The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.
- extirpator — Someone or something that extirpates.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- fiberscope — an optical instrument consisting of a fiber bundle with an objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other, for viewing objects not accessible to direct viewing.
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- fire power — the capability of a military force, unit, or weapons system as measured by the amount of gunfire, number of missiles, etc., deliverable to a target.
- first post — a position of duty, employment, or trust to which one is assigned or appointed: a diplomatic post.
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- for-profit — (of a business or institution) initiated or operated for the purpose of making a profit: for-profit hospitals.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- fruit drop — the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
- fruit shop — a shop that sells a variety of edible fruits
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- gasparovic — Ivan. born 1941, Slovakian politician, president of Slovakia (2004–14)
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- geomorphic — of or relating to the form of the earth or the forms of its surface.
- geotropism — oriented growth with respect to the force of gravity.
- girl power — an assertiveness and self-confidence shown by girls and young women
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- gossiprede — (obsolete) The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
- graphitoid — resembling graphite
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- gros point — a large stitch used in embroidery. Compare petit point (def 1), tent stitch.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- guide rope — a rope fastened, usually at an angle, to a hoisting or towing line, to guide the object being moved.
- gyro pilot — automatic pilot.
- gyroscopic — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- harpooning — Present participle of harpoon.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.