10-letter words containing a, u, s, p, i
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- pari passu — with equal pace or progress; side by side.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- 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.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pasteurize — 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.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- procacious — insolent
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoacid — a compound that is not an acid but which undergoes certain typical reactions of an acid
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- pupiparous — (of an insect) bearing fully developed larvae that are ready to pupate.
- purchasing — buying
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue