10-letter words containing t, y, r, o, c
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- 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.
- 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.
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- prototypic — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- 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.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- rachiotomy — (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting, or making an incision in a vertebra.
- radiolytic — the dissociation of molecules by ionizing radiation.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- 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.
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- syndicator — a person who establishes a syndicate
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
- thyrotoxic — of or relating to a condition caused by excessive thyroid hormone in the system, usually resulting from overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- tobramycin — a highly toxic aminoglycoside antibiotic, C 18 H 37 N 5 O 9 , derived from Streptomyces tenebarius, used in the treatment of serious infections due to susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.
- torch lily — tritoma.
- trajectory — the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.
- trichocyst — an organ of offense and defense embedded in the outer cytoplasm of certain protozoans, consisting of a small elongated sac containing a fine, hairlike filament capable of being ejected.
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- trichology — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- trichotomy — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
- tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- tyrocidine — an antibiotic that is the main constituent of tyrothricin
- up country — away from the coast or the capital
- uterectomy — the surgical removal of the uterus
- varicosity — the state or condition of being varicose.