10-letter words containing a, c, p, s
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- pre-access — the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- predecease — to die before (another person, the occurrence of an event, etc.).
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- press card — a card issued to journalists, certifying they work for the press, and authorizing them to attend certain events, venues, etc
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- procacious — insolent
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- psittacism — mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- purchasing — buying
- purse crab — coconut crab.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- radarscope — the viewing screen of radar equipment.
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- respectant — aspectant.
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- rock spray — a low, evergreen, Himalayan shrub, Cotoneaster microphyllus, of the rose family, having shiny leaves with grayish, hairy undersides, white flowers, and scarlet berries.
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- safe space — a place or forum where people can openly discuss controversial subjects without fear of reprisal
- salary cap — a maximum limit on salaries.