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10-letter words containing o, p, i, s, m

  • mousepiece — a cut of meat near the shoulder of a sheep or cow that is rich in muscle tissue
  • muciparous — muciferous.
  • multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
  • museophile — One who loves museums.
  • musophobia — Fear of mice.
  • myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
  • myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
  • mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
  • mysophobia — a dread of dirt or filth.
  • mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
  • omniparous — producing or generating all things
  • on impulse — instinctively
  • opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
  • opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
  • opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
  • optimising — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
  • optimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
  • orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
  • outpromise — to promise more than
  • overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • oversimple — excessively simple
  • oversimply — in an oversimple manner
  • palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
  • pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
  • pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
  • paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
  • parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
  • paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
  • patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
  • pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
  • pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
  • periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
  • peroxisome — a cell organelle containing catalase, peroxidase, and other oxidative enzymes and performing essential metabolic functions, as the decomposition of fatty acids and hydrogen peroxide.
  • phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
  • phoenixism — the process of making a business insolvent in order to evade paying debts and then setting the business up again under a new name
  • pianissimo — very soft.
  • pine mouse — any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; especially the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum.
  • pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
  • plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
  • polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
  • polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
  • polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
  • polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
  • polymerise — to subject to polymerization.
  • polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.
  • polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
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