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10-letter words containing m, i, s, a, p

  • pragmatism — character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.
  • pragmatist — a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
  • priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
  • proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
  • prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
  • proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • psittacism — mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.
  • ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
  • puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • 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.
  • pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
  • re-baptism — a new or second baptism
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • sachemship — the office of a sachem
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • scampishly — in a scampish manner
  • seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
  • 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.
  • separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
  • septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
  • shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
  • sic passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
  • simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
  • simplicial — relating to simplexes
  • siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
  • slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
  • space-time — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
  • spare time — leisure hours
  • sparganium — a marsh plant
  • spartanism — Also, Spartanic [spahr-tan-ik] /spɑrˈtæn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Sparta or its people.
  • spasmodist — a person who is spasmodic, especially in style, as a writer, painter, etc.
  • specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
  • spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
  • spermarium — the sperm gland
  • spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
  • spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatoid — resembling sperm.
  • spiral arm — any of the elongated and curved spiral sections that are connected to the center of a spiral galaxy.
  • sporangium — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
  • stamp mill — a mill or machine in which ore is crushed to powder by means of heavy stamps or pestles.
  • stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
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