10-letter words containing p, y, r, o
- 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.
- depuratory — Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- dirty pool — unethical, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- 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
- 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).
- 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...
- 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.
- euphrosyne — one of the three Graces
- 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.
- expiratory — Of or relating to the exhalation of air from the lungs.
- expository — Intended to explain or describe something.
- eye-opener — sth surprising or revelatory
- eyedropper — A dropper for administering eye-drops.
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferry port — a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities for the loading and unloading of ferries
- fluorotype — an early form of photograph produced on paper treated with sodium fluoride
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- gramophony — the art, technique, or practice of recording sound on disc
- granophyre — a fine-grained or porphyritic granitic rock with a micrographic intergrowth of the minerals of the groundmass.
- graphalloy — a compound of graphite impregnated with Babbitt metal, bronze, copper, gold, etc., used as a low-friction material.
- graphology — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
- gray power — the organized influence exerted by elderly people as a group, especially for social or political purposes or ends.
- grey power — the political, financial, or social influence of elderly people
- gymnosperm — a vascular plant having seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary; a conifer or cycad.
- gymnospore — a naked spore, especially one not produced in a sporangium or one lacking a protective envelope.
- gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
- gyro pilot — automatic pilot.
- gyrocopter — autogiro.
- gyroscopes — Plural form of gyroscope.
- 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.
- happy hour — a cocktail hour or longer period at a bar, during which drinks are served at reduced prices or with free snacks: happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m.
- heliotropy — the growth of plants in a particular direction as a response to the stimulus of light, heliotropism
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.