10-letter words containing r, d, o, p
- 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
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- drop-forge — to form in a drop forge.
- drop-front — designating a desk with a front panel fitted with hinges on its bottom edge so that it can be pivoted forward and down to form a surface for writing
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drownproof — to teach (a person) the technique of drownproofing.
- 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.
- dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- 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
- eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
- editorship — the office or function of an editor.
- edo period — the period of Japanese history from 1603 to 1867, when Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shoguns
- endomorphs — Plural form of endomorph.
- endopleura — the internal coating of a seed
- endorphins — Plural form of endorphin.
- endosphere — (biology) All the endophytes of a plant.
- endospores — Plural form of endospore.
- endproduct — Alternative spelling of end product.
- epidermoid — Of, pertaining to or composed of epidermal tissue.
- epidiorite — metamorphosed diorite, with a fibrous amphibole component
- evaporated — Simple past tense and past participle of evaporate.
- expeditors — Plural form of expeditor.
- eyedropper — A dropper for administering eye-drops.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- food group — any of the categories into which different foods may be placed according to the type of nourishment they supply, such as carbohydrates or proteins
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forepassed — already in the past; bygone.
- fruit drop — the premature shedding of fruit from a tree before fully ripe
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- gastropods — Plural form of gastropod.
- goa powder — a brownish-yellow, odorless, crystalline powder obtained from the wood or the trunk of the Brazilian tree Andira araroba, used as a source of chrysarobin.