10-letter words containing p, a, t, o, i
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- authorship — The authorship of a piece of writing is the identity of the person who wrote it.
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autophilia — Self love, especially sexual attraction to the self.
- autophobia — the fear of solitude or being alone
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- autopilots — Plural form of autopilot.
- autopodium — (anatomy) The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autoscopic — of or relating to an out-of-body experience
- autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
- barotropic — having a density that is a function only of pressure.
- barrow pit — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- batophobia — The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down.
- bibliotaph — a person who caches or hoards books.
- bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- cacotopian — relating to cacotopia
- caespitose — growing in dense tufts
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- capitation — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
- capitolian — of or relating to the Capitoline
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- captioning — Present participle of caption.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- captivator — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- cataphoric — the use of a word or phrase to refer to a following word or group of words, as the use of the phrase as follows.
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- ceratopsid — a dinosaur belonging to the family Ceratopsidae, characterized by their parrot-like beaks, horns and neck frills
- citalopram — an antidepressant drug, C 20 H 22 BrFN 20 , of the SSRI class, that acts by prolonging the action of serotonin in the brain.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- co-captain — a joint captain
- coach trip — any tour, journey, or voyage made by bus
- coaptation — the joining or reuniting of two surfaces, esp the ends of a broken bone or the edges of a wound
- coated pit — a clathrin-lined depression in the outer surface of a cell membrane, formed of receptors and their specific ligands, that becomes a coated vesicle upon endocytosis.