10-letter words containing p, s, o, r
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- desperados — Plural form of desperado.
- despoilers — Plural form of despoiler.
- developers — Plural form of developer.
- diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- dispeopler — One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- dispersion — Also, dispersal. an act, state, or instance of dispersing or of being dispersed.
- dispersoid — the suspended particles in a dispersion.
- disporting — Present participle of disport.
- dispositor — a planet that controls the star sign in which another planet is located
- disprofess — to renounce the profession of
- disprovide — (obsolete, transitive) Not to provide; to fail to provide.
- disproving — Present participle of disprove.
- disruption — forcible separation or division into parts.
- disruptors — Plural form of disruptor.
- dissipator — One who, or that which, dissipates something.
- disworship — to refuse to revere or worship
- doctorship — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dollarspot — a turf disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia or related genera, characterized by small, brown to straw-colored, round patches of dead grass that gradually spread and coalesce.
- doorperson — A doorman or doorwoman.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- drainspout — downspout.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- droop nose — Aeronautics. a downward-sloping, adjustable aircraft nose, which increases visibility for the pilot during takeoff and landing. an aircraft with this type of nose. an adjustable flap at the leading edge of an aircraft wing.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- drop press — drop forge.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
- drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
- dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
- dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
- dysprosody — A disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions of speech are compromised or eliminated completely.
- dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
- dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy