10-letter words containing p, o, e, y, c
- predictory — predictive.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pycnocline — a layer, zone, or gradient of changing density, esp. a thin layer of ocean water with a density that increases rapidly with depth
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- touch-type — to type by means of the touch system.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
- upbuoyance — an uplifting or buoying up
- xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.
- zymoscopes — Plural form of zymoscope.