10-letter words containing p, y, r
- ditriglyph — the distance, on centers, between a metope and the second one distant.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- dvd player — machine: plays DVDs
- dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
- dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
- 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
- dyspractic — relating to or affected by dyspraxia
- 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).
- 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.
- eye-opener — sth surprising or revelatory
- eyedropper — A dropper for administering eye-drops.
- fairy lamp — a lamp using a candle as the source of illumination, usually constructed of glass or ceramic material, set on a metal base, and having a fabric shade.
- 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
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- 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.
- frying pan — A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.
- frying-pan — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
- gameplayer — One who plays a game or games.
- gramophony — the art, technique, or practice of recording sound on disc
- grandpappy — grandfather.
- 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.
- graphicacy — the ability to understand and use maps, plans, symbols, etc