10-letter words containing p, o, c, a
- geoponical — agricultural
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- hagioscope — squint (def 13).
- halophilic — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- happi coat — a Japanese lounging jacket with wide, loose sleeves and often an overlapping front closure usually tied with a sash.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hepatocyte — a cell of the main tissue of the liver; liver cell.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptapodic — having seven metrical feet
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hippocampi — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- hopsacking — bagging made chiefly of hemp and jute.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
- hypoactive — Less than normally active.
- hypocapnia — (medicine) A state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood.
- hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hypotactic — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- idiopathic — of unknown cause, as a disease.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- in company — When you are in company, you are with a person or group of people.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- inoperancy — The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- iso pascal — A Lex scanner and Yacc parser are in the comp.sources.unix volume 13 archive.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isographic — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isopachous — having the same thickness.