10-letter words containing p, r, o, i, c
- 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.
- epimorphic — (zoology, of an insect larva) That becomes segmented prior to hatching.
- europhobic — hostile to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- evaporitic — Of or pertaining to an evaporite.
- excerption — The act of excerpting or selecting.
- exospheric — Of or pertaining to an exosphere.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- fiberscope — an optical instrument consisting of a fiber bundle with an objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other, for viewing objects not accessible to direct viewing.
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- gasparovic — Ivan. born 1941, Slovakian politician, president of Slovakia (2004–14)
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- geomorphic — of or relating to the form of the earth or the forms of its surface.
- gyroscopic — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- harpsicord — Dated form of harpsichord.
- 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.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holotropic — Oriented or moving towards wholeness.
- homophoric — Relating to homophora.
- hop-picker — a person employed or a machine used to pick hops
- hydroponic — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- hylotropic — (of a substance) capable of undergoing a change in phase, as from a liquid to a gas, with no change in the original proportions of its constituents.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypertonic — Physiology. of or relating to hypertonia.
- hypertoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypocretin — Either of the peptide hormones orexin.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypocritic — Synonym of hypocritical.
- hypodermic — characterized by the introduction of medicine or drugs under the skin: hypodermic injection.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- iconograph — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- idiotropic — of or characterized by introspection; introspective.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- in corpore — in body; in substance.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled