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10-letter words containing p, o, t, c

  • supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
  • supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
  • swampscott — a city in NE Massachusetts.
  • syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
  • tachograph — a recording tachometer.
  • tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
  • techno-pop — a form of popular dance music of the 1980s and 1990s combining elements of techno with live instrumentation, pop lyrics, etc.
  • technopole — an area with high-tech industrial research and development facilities
  • teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
  • teinoscope — an optical device employing prisms to correct the chromatic aberration of light
  • telecopier — a fax machine
  • telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
  • theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • theophoric — having the name of a god embedded in something, such as a name
  • tippecanoe — a river in N Indiana, flowing SW to the Wabash: battle 1811. 200 miles (320 km) long.
  • tocopherol — one of several alcohols that constitute the dietary factor known as vitamin E, occurring in wheat-germ oil, lettuce or spinach leaves, egg yolk, etc.
  • tocophobia — an abnormal fear of giving birth or becoming pregnant
  • top secret — highly confidential, restricted
  • top-secret — bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
  • tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
  • topicality — the state or quality of being topical.
  • topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
  • toponymics — the study of place-names
  • torpescent — becoming torpid
  • torporific — causing torpor.
  • touch-type — to type by means of the touch system.
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trackpoint — (hardware)   (Or "pointing stick", "nipple") A small knob found in the middle of some keyboards that works like a very short isometric joystick. Pressing it toward or away from you or from side to side moves the pointer on the screen. Ted Selker brought the concept of an in-keyboard pointing device to IBM in September 1987. TrackPoint was introduced in 1992 on the IBM ThinkPad and later on some desktops. It takes up virtually no extra room on the box or the work area and also requires minimal movement of the hands from the keyboard. Many imitations of highly variable quality appeared. Pointing sticks have also been used in many other notebook brands, including TI, HP, Compac, Dell, Toshiba (e.g. Portege 4000's "AccuPoint II"), and AST (e.g. Ascentia 910N). "TrackPoint" and "Trackpoint" are IBM trademarks.
  • triniscope — an early television with three tubes projecting the three primary colours
  • tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • tropicbird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
  • troutperch — a North American freshwater fish, Percopsis omiscomaycas, exhibiting characteristics of both trouts and perches.
  • truck crop — a vegetable crop raised on a truck farm.
  • truck stop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
  • tuck-point — to finish (masonry) with tuck pointing.
  • turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
  • turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
  • typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
  • typhogenic — producing typhus or typhoid fever.
  • uncomplete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • unphonetic — not phonetic
  • up country — away from the coast or the capital
  • vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
  • vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
  • voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
  • voiceprint — a graphic representation of a person's voice, showing the component frequencies as analyzed by a sound spectrograph.
  • whipstocks — Plural form of whipstock.
  • wood pitch — the final product of the destructive distillation of wood.
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