10-letter words containing p, a, r, d, o
- deportable — liable to deportation
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depredator — A person or thing that makes depredations, especially a predatory animal.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- 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
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dollarspot — a turf disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia or related genera, characterized by small, brown to straw-colored, round patches of dead grass that gradually spread and coalesce.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- 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.
- drainspout — downspout.
- draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- 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.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- evaporated — Simple past tense and past participle of evaporate.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forepassed — already in the past; bygone.
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- gastropods — Plural form of gastropod.
- goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- graphitoid — resembling graphite
- ground pea — peanut.
- hard power — the ability to achieve one's goals by force, esp military force
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- hop garden — a field of hops