10-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- cornucopia — A cornucopia of things is a large number of different things.
- corpocracy — a corporate bureaucracy.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- corporator — a member of a corporation
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- crashproof — (of a vehicle) resistant to damage and as safe as possible for the occupants in the event of a crash.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- crop-eared — having the ears or hair cut short
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- damp-proof — to protect against the incursion of damp by adding a dampcourse or by coating with a moisture-resistant preparation
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- 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.