10-letter words containing p, y, r
- bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- body press — a hold in which a wrestler places full body weight on a supine opponent in trying to pin the opponent's shoulders to the mat.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- bumpy ride — experience: difficult
- by-passers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- cacotrophy — malnutrition
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- carphology — the action of grasping at imaginary objects or plucking at one's bed linen, a characteristic of people affected by delirium
- cartophily — the hobby of collecting cigarette cards
- cerography — the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping
- charophyte — any green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- cherry pie — any of several plants having flowers with an odor suggestive of cherries, as the heliotrope.
- cherry-pie — a widely planted garden heliotrope, Heliotropium peruvianum
- cherrypick — Alternative spelling of cherry-pick.
- chlorophyl — Alternative form of chlorophyll.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- chrysophan — a glucoside that is bitter to the taste and yellow in colour
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clypeiform — having a rounded shield shape
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- completory — serving the purpose of completing
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- copartnery — copartnership
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- coprophagy — feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- copy paper — paper specially prepared for the writing of advertising copy, newspaper copy, etc., usually having guidelines to indicate margins and the number of spaces per line.
- copy press — a simple machine for printing many copies of a document
- copycutter — an employee of a newspaper who separates copy into takes to facilitate printing.
- copyeditor — a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, especially to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar.
- copyholder — one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof
- copyreader — a person who edits and prepares newspaper copy for publication; subeditor
- copyrights — Plural form of copyright.
- 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
- corn poppy — a poppy, Papaver rhoeas, that has bright red flowers and grows in cornfields. Since World War I it has been the symbol of fallen soldiers