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10-letter words containing oi

  • peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
  • pemphigoid — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
  • pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
  • phalloidin — a peptide toxin, responsible for the toxicity of the death cap mushroom, Amanita phalloides
  • piccoloist — a person who plays the piccolo.
  • pinacoidal — belonging or relating to a pinacoid
  • pinchpoint — a traffic-calming measure in which the road narrows to one lane, with a sign indicating which oncoming driver should give way
  • pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
  • pinot noir — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
  • pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
  • plus point — an advantage or positive characteristic
  • poignantly — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
  • poikilitic — (of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.
  • poinsettia — a plant, Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of the spurge family, native to Mexico and Central America, having variously lobed leaves and brilliant scarlet, pink, or white petallike bracts.
  • point duty — the stationing of a policeman or traffic warden at a road junction to control and direct traffic
  • point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
  • point tire — drawn work.
  • point-wise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
  • poison gas — any of various toxic gases, especially those used in chemical warfare to kill or incapacitate on inhalation or contact, as phosgene, chlorine, etc.
  • poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
  • poison ivy — a vine or shrub, Rhus radicans, having trifoliate leaves and whitish berries and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.
  • poison oak — either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them.
  • poison-pen — composed or sent maliciously, as a letter, usually anonymously and for the purpose of damaging another's reputation or happiness: The newspaper received a poison-pen letter alleging that the mayor was misusing city funds.
  • poisonable — able to be poisoned
  • poisonwood — a tree, Metopium toxiferum, of southern Florida, that has compound leaves and yellowish, berrylike fruits and is poisonous to touch.
  • polychroic — having many colours
  • polyploidy — having a chromosome number that is more than double the basic or haploid number.
  • porphyroid — a rock resembling porphyry.
  • porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
  • portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
  • postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • pound coin — a British coin with a value of one pound sterling
  • pour point — the lowest temperature at which a substance will flow under given conditions.
  • powerpoint — (graphics, tool)   A Microsoft application for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc.
  • preappoint — to appoint beforehand.
  • premoisten — to moisten beforehand
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • pro-choice — supporting or advocating legalized abortion.
  • procercoid — an elongate larval stage of some tapeworms that usually develops in the body of a freshwater copepod.
  • proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
  • proteinoid — a polymer of amino acids resembling a biological polypeptide but formed abiotically: suggested as a possible intermediate in protein development during primitive earth conditions.
  • purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
  • pyrethroid — any of several synthetic compounds that are similar to but more persistent than natural pyrethrins.
  • pyroxenoid — any of a group of triclinic silicates including wollastonite, rhodonite, and pectolite
  • quadrifoil — Alternative form of quadrifoliate.
  • quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
  • quinoidine — a brownish-black, resinous substance consisting of a mixture of alkaloids, obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of quinine and formerly used as a cheap substitute for it.
  • quintefoil — cinquefoil (def 2).
  • quoin post — the vertical post at the side of a lock gate, about which the gate swings
  • rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
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