10-letter words containing pt
- captaining — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- captioning — Present participle of caption.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- captivance — captivity
- captivated — Simple past tense and past participle of captivate.
- captivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of captivate.
- captivator — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- cataleptic — a physical condition usually associated with catatonic schizophrenia, characterized by suspension of sensation, muscular rigidity, fixity of posture, and often by loss of contact with environment.
- catoptrics — the branch of optics concerned with reflection, esp the formation of images by mirrors
- cgi script — Common Gateway Interface
- chaptalize — to add sugar to (a fermenting wine) to increase the alcohol content
- chapter 11 — the statute regarding the reorganization of a failing business empowering a court to allow the debtors to remain in control of the business to attempt to save it
- co-captain — a joint captain
- coaptation — the joining or reuniting of two surfaces, esp the ends of a broken bone or the edges of a wound
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- coleoptile — a protective sheath around the plumule in grasses
- concepting — a general notion or idea; conception.
- conception — A conception of something is an idea that you have of it in your mind.
- conceptive — having the power of mental conception
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- conniption — a fit of rage or tantrums
- conscripts — Plural form of conscript.
- contracept — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- cooptation — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- coreceptor — (molecular biology) A cell surface receptor that binds a signaling molecule in addition to a primary receptor in order to facilitate ligand recognition and initiate a biological process, such as entry of a pathogen into a host cell.
- correption — the shortening of vowels in pronunciation
- corrupting — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- corruptive — tending to corrupt or produce corruption
- crypto-jew — a member of a Jewish community who secretly practices Judaism while officially converting, under duress, to either Christianity or Islam.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cryptology — the study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them
- cryptopine — a poisonous alkaloid, C21H23NO5, found in opium
- cryptozoic — of or relating to that part of geological time represented by rocks in which the evidence of life is slight and the life forms are primitive; pre-Phanerozoic
- cryptozoon — an extinct genus of algae from Precambrian and Cambrian times, forming irregularly hemispherical fossil colonies composed of layers of limy precipitate.
- deceiptful — Obsolete form of deceitful.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deceptible — capable of being deceived
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- deceptious — relating to deception or inclined to deceive
- decrypting — Present participle of decrypt.
- decryption — to decode or decipher.
- deepthroat — To perform fellatio or irrumation on a man so that his entire penis is inside the mouth.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- descriptor — a word or phrase which constitutes the descriptive element of a sentence
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing