10-letter words containing p, o, c, s
- cross-post — a message posted to two or more message boards or electronic mailing lists at the same time: Cross-posts are often greeted with hostility.
- crosspatch — a peevish bad-tempered person
- crosspiece — a transverse beam, joist, etc
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryoscopic — Chemistry. a technique for determining the molecular weight of a substance by dissolving it and measuring the freezing point of the solution.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- culdoscope — an endoscope used in a medical examination of the ovary, uterus, etc., inserted through the upper vaginal wall into the pelvic cavity
- culdoscopy — Endoscopy of the female pelvic organs by way of the vagina.
- cupidinous — having a great desire or cupidity
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- cynopodous — (of some mammals, such as dogs) having claws that do not retract
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- cystoscope — a slender tubular medical instrument for examining the interior of the urethra and urinary bladder
- cystoscopy — examination of the urinary bladder or tract with the aid of a cystoscope
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decomposed — having been subject to decomposition
- decomposer — any organism in a community, such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue enabling the constituents to be recycled to the environment
- decomposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decompose.
- decompress — to relieve (a substance) of pressure or (of a substance) to be relieved of pressure
- decoupages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decoupage.
- deep focus — the focusing of a filmed scene so as to make near and distant objects equally clear.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diplodocus — a huge herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Diplodocus, from the Late Jurassic Epoch of western North America, growing to a length of about 87 feet (26.5 meters).
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- discophile — a person who studies and collects phonograph records, especially those of a rare or specialized nature.
- dispondaic — of or relating to a dispondee
- docentship — privatdocent.
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.