10-letter words containing p, r, y, e
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- 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
- corporeity — bodily or material nature or substance; physical existence; corporeality
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- counterspy — a spy working against or investigating enemy espionage
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- cryoprobes — Plural form of cryoprobe.
- cryoscopes — Plural form of cryoscope.
- cryosphere — All those areas of the Earth where the surface is frozen.
- 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
- cybergroup — A group based in cyberspace or on the Internet.
- cyberspace — In computer technology, cyberspace refers to data banks and networks, considered as a place.
- cypherpunk — A person who uses encryption when accessing a computer network in order to ensure privacy, especially from government authorities.
- cyphertext — (language) An interactive language for text formatting and typesetting.
- cypripedia — any plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deep fryer — a deep pan or pot with a basket, usually of mesh, inside, for deep-frying.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depository — A depository is a place where objects can be stored safely.
- depravedly — in a depraved manner
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- disparency — (proscribed) A significant discrepancy.
- dispensary — a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- ectomorphy — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
- empire day — a former holiday celebrated in the British Empire on May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday
- encrypters — Plural form of encrypter.
- encrypting — Present participle of encrypt.
- 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...
- energy gap — the difference of energy between the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band of the electrons in a crystalline solid. For values below about 2eV the substance is considered to be a semiconductor whilst for higher values it is considered to be an insulator
- entryphone — an intercom system at the entrance to a building through which visitors identify themselves so that someone inside can let them in by a device which unlocks the door remotely
- epeirogeny — (geomorphology) broad regional upwarp of the cratonic portions of continents.
- epistolary — Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters.
- erysipelas — An acute, sometimes recurrent disease caused by a bacterial infection. It is characterized by large, raised red patches on the skin, especially that of the face and legs, with fever and severe general illness.
- euphrosyne — one of the three Graces
- eurypterid — An extinct marine arthropod of a group occurring in the Paleozoic era. They are related to horseshoe crabs and resemble large scorpions with a terminal pair of paddle-shaped swimming appendages.
- every pore — You can say that someone has a certain quality or emotion coming from every pore to emphasize the strength of that quality or emotion.
- everyplace — (US, informal) Everywhere.
- expiratory — Of or relating to the exhalation of air from the lungs.
- expository — Intended to explain or describe something.
- expressway — A highway designed for fast traffic, with controlled entrance and exit, a dividing strip between the traffic in opposite directions, and typically two or more lanes in each direction.