10-letter words containing e, s, m, p
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplies — Plural form of multiply.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- nameplates — Plural form of nameplate.
- namespaces — Plural form of namespace.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nrem sleep — slow-wave sleep.
- on impulse — instinctively
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- outpromise — to promise more than
- overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- 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.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- 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
- parameters — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pas marche — a marching step.
- passamezzo — an Italian dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to the pavane
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- 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
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentstemon — penstemon.
- per mensem — by the month.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- permissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- peroxisome — a cell organelle containing catalase, peroxidase, and other oxidative enzymes and performing essential metabolic functions, as the decomposition of fatty acids and hydrogen peroxide.
- pesterment — the fact of pestering or of being subjected to pestering behaviour
- pestersome — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful