10-letter words containing trop
- isentropes — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isentropic — having a constant entropy.
- isotropism — isotropy
- isotropous — (archaic) isotropic.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- lipotropic — having an affinity for lipids and thus preventing or correcting excess accumulation of fat in the liver.
- lipotropin — a large polypeptide of the pituitary gland from which endorphins and other endogenous opiates are thought to derive.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- monotropic — polymorphism that is irreversible.
- mycotrophy — the symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a living plant.
- myoatrophy — atrophy of muscle.
- necrotroph — a parasitic organism that kills the living cells of its host and then feeds on the dead matter
- negentropy — The entropy that a living thing exports to keep its own entropy low.
- neotropics — Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.
- neurotropy — the quality of being neurotropic.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- non troppo — not too much: allegro non troppo.
- nootropics — Plural form of nootropic.
- orthotropy — the state of being either orthotropic or orthotropous
- petrópolis — a city in SE Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro: resort. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)
- phototrope — a type of robot that either seeks or flees from sources of bright light
- phototroph — any organism that uses light as its principal source of energy.
- phototropy — an alteration in the colour of certain substances as a result of being exposed to light of different wavelengths
- pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- prototroph — a microorganism that has the same nutritional requirements as the parent organism. Compare auxotroph.
- ribbentrop — Joachim von [yoh-ah-khim fuh n] /ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm fən/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, German leader in the Nazi party: minister of foreign affairs 1938–45; executed for war crimes.
- saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- strophulus — a papular eruption of the skin, especially in infants, occurring in several forms and usually harmless.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- thixotropy — the property exhibited by certain gels of becoming liquid when stirred or shaken.
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- trophology — the study or science of nutrition
- trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
- 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.
- troponin i — a protein within a troponin complex that helps regulate the heartbeat and can be used as an indicator of myocardial infarction.
- tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- tropophyte — a tropophilous plant, as a broad-leaved tree.
- tropotaxis — straight movement by an organism toward or away from a source of stimulation as a result of comparing information received by paired sensory receptors on both sides of the body.
- vagotropic — affecting the vagus nerve.
- xenotropic — (of a virus) able to replicate only in a different animal species from the host
- zootrophic — of or relating to zootrophy