10-letter words containing a, s, e, p, i
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- mispleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of misplead.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonpassive — not passive; active
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pangenesis — the theory that a reproductive cell contains gemmules or invisible germs that were derived from the individual cells from every part of the organism and that these gemmules are the bearers of hereditary attributes.
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paraenesis — advice
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- parischane — a parish
- parisienne — a girl or woman who is a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.