10-letter words containing i, t, s, l, o
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- postillate — to annotate, to postil
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- posttibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- pottsville — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- prosilient — prominent
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- resolution — a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- resolutive — having the ability to dissolve or terminate.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- roscoelite — a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
- rothschild — Lionel Nathan, Baron de ("Lord Natty") 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
- royalistic — relating to a royalist
- sailboater — a person who sails a boat
- sailor hat — a hat with a flat round crown and fairly broad brim that is rolled upwards
- salivation — the act or process of salivating.
- salutation — the act of saluting.
- scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- school tie — old school tie.
- schooltide — schooldays
- schooltime — the period during which schools are open
- scintillon — a luminescent body present in the cytoplasm of some dinoflagellates
- sciolistic — superficial knowledge.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- senatorial — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a senator or senate: senatorial oratory.