10-letter words containing op
- anglophile — If you describe a non-British person as Anglophile, you mean that they admire Britain and British culture.
- anglophobe — a person who hates or fears England or its people
- anglophone — Anglophone communities are English-speaking communities in areas where more than one language is commonly spoken.
- anisotropy — Physics. of unequal physical properties along different axes. Compare isotropic (def 1).
- anopheline — (of mosquitoes) belonging to the genus Anopheles, which carries malaria
- anthophore — an elongation of the receptacle of a flower between the calyx and corolla
- anthropoid — resembling man
- antilopine — of or relating to the antelope
- antiutopia — dystopia.
- apocopated — to shorten by apocope.
- apopemptic — relating to departure, valedictory
- apophthegm — a short cryptic remark containing some general or generally accepted truth; maxim
- apophyseal — Anatomy, Botany. an outgrowth; process; projection or protuberance.
- apoplectic — If someone is apoplectic, they are extremely angry about something.
- apoprotein — any conjugated protein from which the prosthetic group has been removed, such as apohaemoglobin (the protein of haemoglobin without its haem group)
- apostrophe — An apostrophe is the mark ' when it is written to indicate that one or more letters have been left out of a word, as in 'isn't' and 'we'll'. It is also added to nouns to form possessives, as in 'Mike's car'.
- apostrophy — Alternative form of apostrophe.
- apotropaic — preventing or intended to prevent evil
- apotropous — (of a plant ovule) anatrophous with a ventral raphe
- apropos of — with regard to; in respect of
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
- arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
- arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- area opaca — the opaque area of the blastoderm surrounding the area pellucida.
- areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
- arthropoda — the phylum comprising the arthropods.
- arthropods — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually a chitinous shell that undergoes moltings, including the insects, spiders and other arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods.
- asthenopia — a strained condition of the eyes, often with headache, dizziness, etc.
- astrophoto — (astronomy, photography) An image of one or more celestial objects made using techniques of astrophotography.
- atropatene — Media Atropatene.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- audiophile — a person who has a great interest in high-fidelity sound reproduction
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autophilia — Self love, especially sexual attraction to the self.
- autophobia — the fear of solitude or being alone
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- autopilots — Plural form of autopilot.
- autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
- autopodium — (anatomy) The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autoscopic — of or relating to an out-of-body experience
- autotrophs — Plural form of autotroph.
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
- auxotrophs — Plural form of auxotroph.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- aviophobia — fear of flying in an airplane or other aircraft.