10-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- unprofaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- unprovable — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- uproarious — characterized by or in a state of uproar; tumultuous.
- upwards of — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- urographic — of or relating to urography
- usurpation — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
- usurpatory — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- valparaiso — Spanish Valparaíso [bahl-pah-rah-ee-saw] /ˌbɑl pɑ rɑˈi sɔ/ (Show IPA). a seaport in central Chile.
- van rompuy — Herman. born 1947, Belgian politician; prime minister of Belgium (2008–09); president of the European Council (2009–14)
- vapor load — A vapor load is the amount of a vapor which goes into or comes out of a stage in a distillation process.
- vapor lock — an obstruction to the flow of fuel to a gasoline engine, caused by the formation of bubbles in the gasoline as a result of overheating.
- vaporiform — in the form or state of vapour
- vapourware — new computer software that has not yet been produced and which is likely never to be released or not to work as promised
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- venography — x-ray examination of a vein or veins following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- vibraphone — vibraharp.
- vibrograph — a device for recording mechanical vibrations.
- viviparous — Zoology. bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes.
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- voltampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voluptuary — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- water polo — an aquatic game played by two teams of seven swimmers each, the object being to score goals by pushing, carrying, or passing an inflated ball and tossing it into the opponent's goal, defended by a goalkeeper.
- waterpower — Alternative form of water power.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- watersport — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- waterspout — Also called rainspout. a pipe running down the side of a house or other building to carry away water from the gutter of the roof.
- wave power — power extracted from the motion of sea waves at the coast
- weaponeers — Plural form of weaponeer.
- womanpower — potential or actual power from the endeavors of women: the utilization of womanpower during a great national emergency.
- work space — area used for work
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
- wove paper — paper that exhibits a pattern of fine mesh when held up to the light.
- wraparound — (of a garment) made to fold around or across the body so that one side of the garment overlaps the other forming the closure.
- xenography — The process of surgically transplanting organs or tissue between different species.
- xerography — an electrostatic printing process for copying text or graphics whereby areas on a sheet of paper corresponding to the image areas of the original are sensitized with a charge of static electricity so that, when powdered with a toner carrying an opposite charge, only the charged areas retain the toner, which is then fused to the paper to make it permanent.
- xerophagia — The eating of dry food.
- xerophobia — A fear of dryness.
- xerox parc — /zee'roks park'/ Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center. For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of ground-breaking hardware and software innovations. The modern mice, windows, and icons (WIMP) style of software interface was invented there. So was the laser printer and the local-area network; Smalltalk; and PARC's series of D machines anticipated the powerful personal computers of the 1980s by a decade. Sadly, the prophets at PARC were without honour in their own company, so much so that it became a standard joke to describe PARC as a place that specialised in developing brilliant ideas for everyone else. The stunning shortsightedness and obtusity of XEROX's top-level suits has been well described in the reference below.
- xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
- xylographs — Plural form of xylograph.
- xylography — The art of making woodcuts or wood engravings, especially by a relatively primitive technique.
- zaporozhye — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- zincograph — (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.
- zoanthropy — a mental disorder in which one believes oneself to be an animal.
- zootherapy — the use of therapeutic drugs derived from animals
- zygopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Zygoptera, comprising the damselflies.