10-letter words containing e, s, m, p
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- presurmise — a surmise previously formed.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prime ribs — a serving of the roasted ribs and meat from a prime cut of beef.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promissive — implying promise
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- prose poem — a composition written as prose but having the concentrated, rhythmic, figurative language characteristic of poetry.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proskomide — prothesis (def 2a).
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- protostome — any member of the lower invertebrate phyla in which the mouth appears before the anus during development, cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the coelom forms as a splitting of the mesoderm.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- psalterium — the omasum.
- psammosere — a sere originating on sand or sandy soil.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pump house — a building where pumps and other pumping equipment have been installed
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- recompress — to compress (something) again
- reimprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sachemship — the office of a sachem
- sapperment — a German oath
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- scrimpness — sparingness