10-letter words containing a, p, o, i, n, t
- aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
- asthenopia — a strained condition of the eyes, often with headache, dizziness, etc.
- 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.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
- balopticon — a type of stereopticon for projecting images of objects by reflected light.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- cacotopian — relating to cacotopia
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- capitation — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
- capitolian — of or relating to the Capitoline
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- captioning — Present participle of caption.
- cashpoints — Plural form of cashpoint.
- cataphonic — catacoustic or of or relating to cataphonics
- 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
- compacting — Present participle of compact.
- compaction — a compacting or being compacted; compression
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- cooptation — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- dead point — dead center
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- drainspout — downspout.
- east point — a city in N Georgia, near Atlanta.
- episcopant — a bishop
- eruptional — relating to volcanic eruption
- euphoriant — A drug which produces feelings of euphoria.
- exaptation — (biology) The use of a biological structure or function for a purpose other than that for which it initially evolved.
- expiration — The ending of the fixed period for which a contract is valid.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- heptatonic — (of a musical scale) comprising seven notes
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.