10-letter words containing p, e, r, o, t
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- supportive — giving support.
- team sport — a sport in which teams play against each other
- telecopier — a fax machine
- teleport's — a regional telecommunications network that provides access to communications satellites and other long distance media; telecommunications hub.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- temporally — of or relating to time.
- temporalty — secular things
- tenpounder — ladyfish.
- terpolymer — a polymer consisting of three different monomers, as ABS resin.
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetraptote — a noun having four cases
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- tetraspore — one of the four asexual spores produced within a tetrasporangium.
- theftproof — safe from theft.
- theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
- thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
- therophyte — a plant living only one year or one growing season.
- thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
- three-spot — a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.
- throw open — to open completely and suddenly
- tin opener — gadget for opening cans
- tocopherol — one of several alcohols that constitute the dietary factor known as vitamin E, occurring in wheat-germ oil, lettuce or spinach leaves, egg yolk, etc.
- tollkeeper — the collector at a tollgate.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- top drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the top (distinguished from front loader).
- top secret — highly confidential, restricted
- top timber — a timber forming the upper, straighter portion of a frame in a wooden hull.
- top-drawer — the highest level in rank, excellence, or importance: a musician strictly out of the top drawer.
- top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- top-loader — a washing machine with a horizontal door in its top rather than a vertical one in its front
- top-ranked — A top-ranked sports player or team is the most successful player or team in a particular sport.
- top-secret — bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
- torpedoing — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
- torpedoist — a person in favour of the use of torpedoes or a person knowledgeable about torpedoes
- torpedoman — a petty officer or warrant officer responsible for the maintenance, use, and repair of underwater weapons and equipment.
- torpescent — becoming torpid
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- trail rope — a guide rope on an aerostat.
- trampoline — a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- tree peony — a shrubby plant, Paeonia suffruticosa, of China, having rose-red or white flowers nearly 12 inches (30.5 cm) wide.
- tree poppy — a Californian shrub, Dendromecon rigida, of the poppy family, having leathery evergreen leaves and showy, usually yellow flowers.
- treehopper — any of numerous homopterous jumping insects of the family Membracidae, that have an enlarged prothorax and feed on the juices of plants, often injuring the plants.
- treponemal — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
- tripehound — an objectionable person