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10-letter words containing h, i, p, u, s

  • hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
  • hypozeuxis — the use of a series of parallel clauses, each of which has a subject and predicate, as in “I came, I saw, I conquered.”.
  • imposthume — (obsolete) an abscess.
  • isopachous — having the same thickness.
  • judgeships — Plural form of judgeship.
  • jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
  • lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
  • lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
  • mediumship — The state of being a medium (psychic conduit).
  • mesohippus — any of a group of prehistoric horselike animals of the genus Mesohippus, which had three toes and which lived during the Oligocene epoch
  • multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
  • museophile — One who loves museums.
  • musophobia — Fear of mice.
  • paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
  • picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
  • pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
  • pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
  • ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
  • plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
  • plushiness — the condition of being plush
  • prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • publishers — a publishing company
  • publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • punch list — a list of unfinished matters that require attention.
  • punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
  • punishment — the act of punishing.
  • purchasing — buying
  • pursership — the position of purser
  • puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
  • push aside — shove to one side
  • 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.
  • pussy-whip — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
  • rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
  • russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
  • schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
  • slush pile — a collection of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
  • spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
  • spike-rush — any perennial plant of the temperate cyperaceous genus Eleocharis, occurring esp by ponds, and having underground stems, narrow leaves, and small flowers
  • sprightful — sprightly.
  • subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
  • sulphoxide — any compound containing a sulphinyl group (SO) and a hydrocarbon radical
  • sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
  • sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
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