10-letter words containing n, a, p, e, s
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonpassive — not passive; active
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonseptate — not having a septum
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- opaqueness — The characteristic of being opaque.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- open space — Ecology. undeveloped land that is protected from development by legislation.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pangenesis — the theory that a reproductive cell contains gemmules or invisible germs that were derived from the individual cells from every part of the organism and that these gemmules are the bearers of hereditary attributes.
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- pantheress — a female panther
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paraenesis — advice
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- parischane — a parish
- parisienne — a girl or woman who is a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- past tense — grammar: verb tense of past actions or states
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
- peace sign — a sign representing “peace,” made by extending the forefinger and middle finger upward in a V -shape with the palm turned outward.
- peakedness — pale and drawn in appearance so as to suggest illness or stress; wan and sickly.