10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- coppertone — a reddish-brown color.
- coprolites — Plural form of coprolite.
- copromoter — a joint promoter
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- corbiestep — one of a series of steps at the upper end wall of some gables
- coreceptor — (molecular biology) A cell surface receptor that binds a signaling molecule in addition to a primary receptor in order to facilitate ligand recognition and initiate a biological process, such as entry of a pathogen into a host cell.
- cormophyte — any of the Cormophyta, a major division (now obsolete) of plants having a stem, root, and leaves: includes the mosses, ferns, and seed plants
- corporated — Simple past tense and past participle of corporate.
- corporates — Plural form of corporate.
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- correption — the shortening of vowels in pronunciation
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cost price — If something is sold at cost price, it is sold for the same price as it cost the seller to buy it.
- cotter pin — a split pin secured, after passing through holes in the parts to be attached, by spreading the ends
- counterpin — bedspread.
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- countertop — A countertop is a flat surface in a kitchen which is easily cleaned and on which you can prepare food.
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- ctenophora — the phylum comprising the comb jellies.
- ctenophore — any marine invertebrate of the phylum Ctenophora, including the sea gooseberry and Venus's-girdle, whose body bears eight rows of fused cilia, for locomotion
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cyphertext — (language) An interactive language for text formatting and typesetting.
- d particle — D meson.
- davenports — Plural form of davenport.
- deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
- death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deep water — having, requiring, or operating in deep water: deepwater shipping; deepwater drilling for oil.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
- departures — Plural form of departure.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deportable — liable to deportation
- deportment — Your deportment is the way you behave, especially the way you walk and move.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depositors — Plural form of depositor.
- depository — A depository is a place where objects can be stored safely.
- deprecated — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprecate.