10-letter words containing oro
- octachoron — (mathematics) A four-dimensional object equivalent to a cube, constructed out of sixteen cubes.
- omnivorous — eating both animal and plant foods.
- orogenesis — the process of mountain making or upheaval.
- orographic — Of or relating to mountains, especially with regard to their position and form.
- oropendola — any of several birds of the genus Gymnostinops, related to crows and feeding primarily on fruit and nectar, noted especially for their hanging nests.
- oropharynx — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
- orotundity — (of the voice or speech) characterized by strength, fullness, richness, and clearness.
- ossivorous — bone-eating
- oxymoronic — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- phosphoro- — phosphorus or phosphorescence
- poroscopic — of or pertaining to poroscopy
- porousness — full of pores.
- prochloron — any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.
- prosphoron — an uncut loaf of altar bread before it is consecrated.
- ranivorous — that eats frogs
- rigorously — characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.
- rio de oro — Western Sahara.
- scottsboro — a town in NE Alabama.
- sonorously — giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern.
- sororicide — a person who kills his or her sister.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogenic — relating to the production or formation of spores, or producing spores
- sporogonic — involving or relating to sporogony
- sporophore — a fungus hypha specialized to bear spores.
- sporophyll — a modified leaf that bears sporangia.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sporoplasm — the protoplasm within a spore that is injected into a host cell by various parasitic organisms.
- sporozoite — one of the minute, active bodies into which the spore of certain Sporozoa divides, each developing into an adult individual.
- statesboro — a town in E Georgia.
- stertorous — characterized by stertor or heavy snoring.
- thoroughly — in a thorough manner or degree; completely and carefully: We will review the data thoroughly.
- tokorozawa — a city in central Honshu, Japan, a suburb of Tokyo.
- toroidally — in a toroidal manner
- traitorous — having the character of a traitor; treacherous; perfidious.
- unhumorous — without humour
- uniflorous — having only one flower.
- unthorough — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- vigorously — full of or characterized by vigor: a vigorous effort.
- voroshilov — Kliment Efremovich [klyi-myent yi-frye-muh-vyich] /klyɪˈmyɛnt yɪˈfryɛ mə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1969, Soviet general: president of the Soviet Union 1953–60.
- waynesboro — a city in N Virginia.
- yarborough — a hand in which no card is higher than a nine.
- zaporozhye — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- zoochorous — (of a plant) having the spores or seeds dispersed by animals