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10-letter words containing n, s, p

  • outpassion — to surpass in passion
  • oven chips — chips or fries that can be cooked in the oven
  • p. johnsonAndrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
  • paganistic — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
  • painstaker — a painstaking person
  • paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  • 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.
  • palinopsia — a visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage
  • palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
  • pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
  • palmerstonHenry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
  • palo santo — a South American tree, Bulnesia sarmienti, of the caltrop family, yielding a fragrant essential oil.
  • 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.
  • pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
  • 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.
  • panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
  • panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
  • panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
  • pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
  • pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
  • 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
  • pantalonespantaloons, 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.
  • pantaloonspantaloons, 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
  • pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
  • paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
  • paraenesis — advice
  • paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
  • 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.
  • paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
  • parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
  • 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.
  • parnassian — pertaining to Mount Parnassus.
  • paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
  • parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
  • partisanly — in a partisan manner
  • pasionaria — La (la), real name Dolores Ibarruri. 1895–1989, Spanish Communist leader, who lived in exile in the Soviet Union (1939–75)
  • pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
  • pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
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