10-letter words containing p, y, r, o, c
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- precursory — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
- predictory — predictive.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- procrypsis — a protective coloration in animals
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- prominency — Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- proof copy — a copy of (a book, story, etc) made from trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) for the correction of errors
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- prototypic — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyrophobic — an abnormal fear of fire.
- pyrophoric — capable of igniting spontaneously in air.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- rough copy — writing: early draft
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- up country — away from the coast or the capital
- urinoscopy — uroscopy.
- xerophytic — (botany) Of, pertaining to, or being a xerophyte.