10-letter words containing p, r, e, t, i, o
- encryption — (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...
- eolotropic — Alternative spelling of aeolotropic.
- epidiorite — metamorphosed diorite, with a fibrous amphibole component
- epistolary — Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters.
- epistrophe — (rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
- epitomizer — An epitomist.
- eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
- eupatorium — (botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- evaporites — Plural form of evaporite.
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- expeditors — Plural form of expeditor.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- expiratory — Of or relating to the exhalation of air from the lungs.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- exploiters — Plural form of exploiter.
- expositors — Plural form of expositor.
- expository — Intended to explain or describe something.
- extirpator — Someone or something that extirpates.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- geotropism — oriented growth with respect to the force of gravity.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- hectorship — the quality or character of a hector
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heliotrope — any hairy plant belonging to the genus Heliotropium, of the borage family, as H. arborescens, cultivated for its small, fragrant purple flowers.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hemipteron — Alternative form of hemipteran.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heterophil — Also, heterophilic. Immunology. (of an antibody) having an affinity for an antigen other than its specific antigen.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hilltopper — the top or summit of a hill.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypnotizer — One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- importable — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.