10-letter words containing p, o, s, t
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- 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
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cutesy-poo — embarrassingly or sickeningly cute.
- cyanotypes — Plural form of cyanotype.
- 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.
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- depletions — Plural form of depletion.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depositing — Present participle of deposit.
- deposition — A deposition is a formal written statement, made for example by a witness to a crime, which can be used in a court of law if the witness cannot be present.
- depositive — having the capacity or tendency to deposit
- depositors — Plural form of depositor.
- depository — A depository is a place where objects can be stored safely.
- depot ship — a ship providing supplies and facilities for other vessels or naval bases
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despiteous — malicious; spiteful.
- despondent — If you are despondent, you are very unhappy because you have been experiencing difficulties that you think you will not be able to overcome.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- despotisms — Plural form of despotism.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- dispiteous — malicious; cruel; pitiless.
- disporting — Present participle of disport.
- disposited — Simple past tense and past participle of disposit.
- dispositif — (international law) A document that communicates the general stance taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.
- dispositor — a planet that controls the star sign in which another planet is located
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- docentship — privatdocent.