10-letter words containing p, r, o, c, t
- 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.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
- 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.
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cryptology — the study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoic — of or relating to that part of geological time represented by rocks in which the evidence of life is slight and the life forms are primitive; pre-Phanerozoic
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- 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
- cystocarps — Plural form of cystocarp.
- cytotropic — (of cells or groups of cells) growing or moving toward or away from each other.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deprecator — to express earnest disapproval of.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- eccoprotic — a laxative
- ectomorphs — Plural form of ectomorph.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- ectoprocta — the phylum Bryozoa, especially as distinguished from the phylum Entoprocta by a body plan having the anus of the polyp outside the crown of tentacles.
- ectoprocts — Plural form of ectoproct.
- electropop — a genre of pop music characterized by the use of synthesizers to replace guitars and drums
- emmetropic — Pertaining to emmetropia.
- 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...
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- entoprocts — Plural form of entoproct.
- eolotropic — Alternative spelling of aeolotropic.
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- except for — You use except for to introduce the only thing or person that prevents a statement from being completely true.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.