10-letter words containing n, o, s, g
- outsinging — Present participle of outsing.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- overdesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- overdosing — Present participle of overdose.
- overseeing — to direct (work or workers); supervise; manage: He was hired to oversee the construction crews.
- overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
- overstrong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
- oxygenless — without oxygen
- paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pepsinogen — crystals, occurring in the gastric glands, that during digestion are converted into pepsin.
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- phosgenite — a mineral, lead chlorocarbonate, Pb 2 Cl 2 CO 3 , occurring in crystals.
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- pig-sconce — a foolish person
- plain-song — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- poison gas — any of various toxic gases, especially those used in chemical warfare to kill or incapacitate on inhalation or contact, as phosgene, chlorine, etc.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygenous — polygenetic
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polygynous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygyny.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- possessing — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
- prick song — written music.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- pseudogene — a genelike section of DNA that has no apparent function
- psychogony — the development or origin of the soul or mind
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- push along — to go away
- pyogenesis — the generation of pus; the process of the formation of pus.
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.