10-letter words containing n, i, p, t
- on the hip — at a disadvantage
- open sight — (on a firearm) a rear sight consisting of a notch across which the gunner aligns the front sight on the target.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- opiniative — Archaic form of opinionative.
- opinionate — (transitive, intransitive) To have or express as an opinion; to opine.
- opinionist — One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions.
- opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
- optimising — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimizing — Something whose purpose is to optimize.
- optionable — the power or right of choosing.
- optionally — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- orange-tip — a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae
- ornithopod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Ornithopoda whose members usually walked erect on their hind legs.
- orthopneic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outpassion — to surpass in passion
- outpatient — a patient who receives treatment at a hospital, as in an emergency room or clinic, but is not hospitalized.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of outpoint.
- outpouring — outpouring.
- outputting — the act of turning out; production: the factory's output of cars; artistic output.
- pack it in — a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack.
- pack train — a train, or procession, of pack animals
- paddington — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Westminster.
- paganistic — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- pagination — Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paint bomb — a device containing paint which explodes on impact
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palliament — a long robe
- palliation — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panaritium — a whitlow
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pancratian — (in ancient Greece) of, or relating to, the pancratium
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- panopticon — a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.
- pansophist — someone with universal knowledge