10-letter words containing y, t, r, o, i
- neurolytic — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- non parity — parity
- numerosity — very many; being or existing in great quantity: numerous visits; numerous fish.
- obligatory — required as a matter of obligation; mandatory: A reply is desirable but not obligatory.
- odorimetry — the measurement of the strength and permanence of odours
- omniparity — a state of universal equality
- on liberty — a treatise (1859) by John Stuart Mill on the rights of the individual within the state.
- ophiolatry — the worship of snakes.
- ordinately — in an ordered manner
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- orientally — In an oriental manner.
- orotundity — (of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.
- osmolarity — The concentration of a solution expressed as the total number of solute particles per liter.
- outrightly — Outright.
- ovariotomy — incision into or removal of an ovary.
- overmighty — too forceful
- overtimely — untimely
- oxidimetry — a technique of analytical chemistry that utilizes oxidizing agents for titrations.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- 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.
- piezometry — the measurement of pressure or compressibility.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- predictory — predictive.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protervity — petulance
- prototypic — the original or model on which something is based or formed.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.