10-letter words containing i, n, o, e, s, r
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- prednisone — an analogue of cortisone, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 5 , used as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antineoplastic in the treatment of various diseases.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- propension — propensity.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proserpina — Persephone.
- proserpine — Also, Proserpina, Proserpine. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Pluto to be queen of Hades, but allowed to return to the surface of the earth for part of the year.
- prosilient — prominent
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protension — duration
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- radiosonde — an instrument that is carried aloft by a balloon to send back information on atmospheric temperature, pressure, and humidity by means of a small radio transmitter.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- raisonneur — a character in a play, novel, or the like who voices the central theme, philosophy, or point of view of the work.
- randomwise — in a random manner
- rawinsonde — a method of upper-atmosphere meteorological observation conducted by means of a radiosonde tracked by radar.
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconciles — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- reconsider — to consider again, especially with a view to change of decision or action: to reconsider a refusal.
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge
- redecision — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.