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10-letter words containing p, o, c, a

  • mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
  • myopically — Very closely; as if suffering from myopia.
  • nanoscopic — Having a scale expressed in nanometers.
  • napoleonic — pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.
  • narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
  • necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
  • necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
  • neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • noctograph — a frame used to aid the blind in writing.
  • non placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
  • non-impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
  • noncapital — (of an offense) not punishable by death.
  • nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
  • nonspacing — (US) alternative spelling of non-spacing.
  • nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • nontypical — not typical; unusual
  • north cape — a point of land on an island at the N tip of Norway: the northernmost point of Europe.
  • notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
  • nyctalopia — night blindness.
  • nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
  • occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
  • occupation — a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
  • occupative — relating to work or profession
  • occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • ocean pout — an eelpout, Macrozoarces americanus, common along the northeastern coast of North America.
  • octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
  • of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
  • opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
  • open brace — left brace
  • open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
  • open space — Ecology. undeveloped land that is protected from development by legislation.
  • open-carry — the practice of publicly carrying a gun or other weapon that is fully or partially visible.
  • open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
  • open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
  • operculate — having an operculum.
  • ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
  • oppugnancy — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
  • opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
  • optic axis — (in a crystal exhibiting double refraction) the direction or directions, uniaxial or biaxial, respectively, along which this phenomenon does not occur.
  • orographic — Of or relating to mountains, especially with regard to their position and form.
  • overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
  • overplaced — placed above
  • oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
  • oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
  • pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • packed out — If a place is packed out, it is very full of people.
  • palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
  • palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
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