10-letter words containing g, o, p, s
- pedagogics — the science or art of teaching or education; pedagogy.
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pepsinogen — crystals, occurring in the gastric glands, that during digestion are converted into pepsin.
- pergelisol — permafrost.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- phosgenite — a mineral, lead chlorocarbonate, Pb 2 Cl 2 CO 3 , occurring in crystals.
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pied goose — magpie goose.
- pig-sconce — a foolish person
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plain-song — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- please god — You say please God to emphasize a strong hope, wish, or desire that you have.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- podologist — a person who studies or specializes in podology
- pogo stick — a long stick having a pair of handles at the top and, near the bottom, a pair of footrests attached to a powerful spring, so that by standing on the footrests while grasping the handles, one can propel oneself along in a series of leaps.
- poison gas — any of various toxic gases, especially those used in chemical warfare to kill or incapacitate on inhalation or contact, as phosgene, chlorine, etc.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygenous — polygenetic
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polygynous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygyny.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- possessing — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- prick song — written music.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.