10-letter words containing i, p, r, o, s
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pensioneer — to canvas votes by promising higher pensions
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pergelisol — permafrost.
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- 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.
- periscopic — Optics. (of certain lenses in special microscopes, cameras, etc.) giving distinct vision obliquely, or all around, as well as, or instead of, in a direct line.
- perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
- peroxidase — any of a class of oxidoreductase enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide or an organic peroxide.
- 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.
- persepolis — an ancient capital of Persia: its imposing ruins are in S Iran, about 30 miles (48 km) NE of Shiraz.
- personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- perversion — the act of perverting.
- petrópolis — a city in SE Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro: resort. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)
- phosphoric — of or containing phosphorus, especially in the pentavalent state.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- piesporter — any of various white wines from the area around the village of Piesport in the Moselle valley in Germany
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- polar axis — the fixed line, usually horizontal, from which the angle made by the radius vector is measured in a polar coordinate system.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
- polo shirt — a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polymerise — to subject to polymerization.
- polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual