10-letter words containing m, o, p, s
- moss point — a town in SE Mississippi.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mote spoon — a small spoon with a pierced bowl for removing tea leaves from a cup of tea.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- mothproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mothproof.
- motor ship — a ship propelled by an internal-combustion engine or engines
- motorsport — A sport involving the racing of motor vehicles, especially cars and motorcycles.
- mousepiece — a cut of meat near the shoulder of a sheep or cow that is rich in muscle tissue
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- ms project — Microsoft Project
- muciparous — muciferous.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- mysophobia — a dread of dirt or filth.
- mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nomographs — Plural form of nomograph.
- non compos — not of sound mind; mentally incapable of managing one's affairs.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- on impulse — instinctively
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- optimising — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
- outpromise — to promise more than
- overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
- paroxysmal — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- passamezzo — an Italian dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to the pavane
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.