10-letter words containing o, p, s, n, i
- portionist — a student at Merton College, Oxford who receives a food or academic allowance from the College, later referred to as a postmaster
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- possessing — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- possession — the act or fact of possessing.
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- postprison — relating to or occurring in the period after a person has been incarcerated
- pound sign — a symbol (£) for “pound” or “pounds” as a monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- prednisone — an analogue of cortisone, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 5 , used as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antineoplastic in the treatment of various diseases.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- prick song — written music.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- print shop — a shop where prints or graphics are sold.
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- prison van — vehicle to transfer prisoners
- 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.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- propension — propensity.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- propulsion — the act or process of propelling.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proserpina — Persephone.
- proserpine — 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.
- prosilient — prominent
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protension — duration
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.