10-letter words containing o, p, e, n, s, t
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypnotize.
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- importunes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of importune.
- inapposite — not apposite; not pertinent.
- inceptions — Plural form of inception.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- inspectors — Plural form of inspector.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- interposed — Simple past tense and past participle of interpose.
- interposer — One who interposes.
- interposes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpose.
- introspect — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- isentropes — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isentropic — having a constant entropy.
- jon postel — (person) (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental standards on which the Internet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as long as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA. He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. His friend Vinton Cerf noted his passing in RFC 2468.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- monopteros — monopteron.
- mote spoon — a small spoon with a pierced bowl for removing tea leaves from a cup of tea.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- neotropics — Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.
- nepotistic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- newel post — a post supporting one end of a handrail at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs.
- nightscope — An optical instrument that provides night vision.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonseptate — not having a septum
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- on deposit — payable as the first instalment, as when buying on hire-purchase
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open sight — (on a firearm) a rear sight consisting of a notch across which the gunner aligns the front sight on the target.
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- 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.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- 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.
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- penny post — (formerly) any of various postal systems delivering mail for a penny a letter.
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- 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
- 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.