10-letter words containing p, o, i, e
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- 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.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disenvelop — to unfold
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disespouse — to divorce from (a spouse)
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- dispeopled — Simple past tense and past participle of dispeople.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispeoples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispeople.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- dispersoid — the suspended particles in a dispersion.
- disphenoid — bisphenoid.
- dispiteous — malicious; cruel; pitiless.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- dispose of — to give a tendency or inclination to; incline: His temperament disposed him to argue readily with people.
- disposedly — in a disposed manner
- disposited — Simple past tense and past participle of disposit.
- dispossess — to put (a person) out of possession, especially of real property; oust.
- disprofess — to renounce the profession of
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- docentship — privatdocent.
- door prize — a prize awarded at a dance, party, or the like, either by chance through a drawing or as a reward, as for having the best costume.
- dope fiend — a drug addict.
- dopexamine — A \u03b21- and \u03b22-adrenergic receptor agonist.
- dopplerite — an organic amorphous mineral of dark colour, found mainly in Austria and Switzerland
- double dip — In economics, a double dip is a period when an economy goes into recession, then briefly recovers, but then goes into another recession.
- double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
- dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- duopsonies — Plural form of duopsony.
- dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- eccoprotic — a laxative
- echopraxia — the abnormal repetition of the actions of another person.
- ecospecies — a taxon consisting of one or more interbreeding ecotypes: equivalent to a taxonomic species.
- ecphonesis — the use of an exclamatory phrase, as in “O tempore! O mores!”.