10-letter words containing m, e, s, u, p
- miscompute — To compute erroneously.
- mousepiece — a cut of meat near the shoulder of a sheep or cow that is rich in muscle tissue
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplies — Plural form of multiply.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- on impulse — instinctively
- outpromise — to promise more than
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- 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.
- pine mouse — any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; especially the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- polymerous — Biology. composed of many parts.
- polyphemus — a Cyclops who was blinded by Odysseus.
- polysemous — a condition in which a single word, phrase, or concept has more than one meaning or connotation.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- pompelmous — pomelo.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- presurmise — a surmise previously formed.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pump house — a building where pumps and other pumping equipment have been installed
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- 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.