10-letter words containing n, s, p
- pass point — a point located photogrammetrically and used as a reference point in orienting other photographs.
- passionary — passional (def 3).
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- passionist — a member of the “Congregation of Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” founded in 1720 and engaged chiefly in missionary work.
- past tense — grammar: verb tense of past actions or states
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- 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.
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pedernales — a river in central Texas, flowing E to the Colorado river. About 105 miles (169 km) long.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- pendencies — the state or time of being pending, undecided, or undetermined, as of a lawsuit awaiting settlement.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- penis envy — the repressed wish of a female to possess a penis.
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- penny post — (formerly) any of various postal systems delivering mail for a penny a letter.
- penny-wise — greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pensioneer — to canvas votes by promising higher pensions
- pensionnat — a simple boarding house or small hotel in France
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- pentstemon — penstemon.
- pepsinogen — crystals, occurring in the gastric glands, that during digestion are converted into pepsin.
- per mensem — by the month.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- persephone — Also, Proserpina, Proserpine. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Pluto to be queen of Hades, but allowed to return to the surface of the earth for part of the year.
- persiennes — (used with a plural verb) Persian blinds.