10-letter words containing opi
- nootropics — Plural form of nootropic.
- norrkoping — a seaport in SE Sweden.
- nyctalopia — night blindness.
- nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
- opiniative — Archaic form of opinionative.
- opinionate — (transitive, intransitive) To have or express as an opinion; to opine.
- opinionist — One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions.
- opinionize — (intransitive) To claim matters of fact as opinion.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- orthotopic — (anatomy) in the normal position.
- penelopize — to act or behave like Penelope, the wife of Odysseus
- periscopic — Optics. (of certain lenses in special microscopes, cameras, etc.) giving distinct vision obliquely, or all around, as well as, or instead of, in a direct line.
- phlogopite — a magnesium-rich mica mineral, usually yellowish-brown, but sometimes reddish-brown.
- pornotopia — a fantasy state or place in which everyone is willing to indulge in sexual activity, esp the setting for pornographic literature
- poroscopic — of or pertaining to poroscopy
- presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
- propionate — an ester or salt of propionic acid.
- propitiate — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
- propitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- protanopia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to red or green.
- ropinirole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
- scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scallopini — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- telecopier — a fax machine
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- thermopile — a device consisting of a number of thermocouples joined in series, used for generating thermoelectric current or for detecting and measuring radiant energy, as from a star.
- topicality — the state or quality of being topical.
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- tritanopia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to blue and yellow.
- trollopian — Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.
- trollopish — like or typical of a trollop
- tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
- tropicbird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
- undrooping — not drooping, not sinking down; unfaltering
- unstooping — (of head, shoulders, posture, or a person) not stooping or bending
- utopianism — the views or habit of mind of a utopian; impracticable schemes of political or social reform.
- utopianist — the views or habit of mind of a utopian; impracticable schemes of political or social reform.
- utopianize — to idealize; to make utopian
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- wallopings — Plural form of walloping.
- xenotropic — (of a virus) able to replicate only in a different animal species from the host