10-letter words containing p, a, t, o, i
- etioplasts — Plural form of etioplast.
- eupatorium — (botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- evaporites — Plural form of evaporite.
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- exaptation — (biology) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
- 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.
- exploitate — (proscribed, nonstandard, transitive) To exploit.
- extirpator — Someone or something that extirpates.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- 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.
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- 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.
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- happi coat — a Japanese lounging jacket with wide, loose sleeves and often an overlapping front closure usually tied with a sash.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hepatolith — A gallstone in the biliary duct of the liver.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypohalite — (chemistry) any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)n.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypostasis — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hypotactic — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypothymia — a state of depression
- idiopathic — of unknown cause, as a disease.
- idiot tape — an input tape for a typesetting machine that contains text only, the typographical instructions being supplied by the typesetting machine itself
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- impanation — the doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are in the bread and wine after consecration.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- implorator — a person who implores
- import ban — a ban on the importation of certain products from a certain country into the home country