10-letter words containing p, h, o, s, r
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- disworship — to refuse to revere or worship
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- endomorphs — Plural form of endomorph.
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- endosphere — (biology) All the endophytes of a plant.
- ephemerous — relating to an ephemeron
- epistrophe — (rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
- euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.
- euphrosyne — one of the three Graces
- exospheric — Of or pertaining to an exosphere.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fruit shop — a shop that sells a variety of edible fruits
- gastrosoph — a person skilled in the art of good eating
- gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- holographs — Plural form of holograph.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- hoop skirt — a woman's skirt made to stand out and drape in a stiff bell-like shape from the waist by an undergarment framework of flexible hoops connected by tapes.
- hoop-skirt — a skirt that has hoops made of bone or metal, etc fastened inside it to make it stiff and full
- horoscopes — Plural form of horoscope.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- 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.