10-letter words containing o, p, s, n, i
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- companions — Plural form of companion.
- compansion — Companding.
- comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
- compassing — Present participle of compass.
- compassion — Compassion is a feeling of pity, sympathy, and understanding for someone who is suffering.
- compersion — The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- composting — the activity or practice of converting garden and kitchen waste to compost
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- conscripts — Plural form of conscript.
- conspiracy — Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
- conspirant — planning a crime or harmful act in secret
- conspiring — of or involved in a conspiracy
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- copernicus — Nicolaus (ˌnɪkəˈleɪəs). Polish name Mikołaj Kopernik. 1473–1543, Polish astronomer, whose theory of the solar system (the Copernican system) was published in 1543
- coping saw — a handsaw with a U-shaped frame used for cutting curves in a material too thick for a fret saw
- copperskin — a Native American
- coprisoner — a fellow prisoner
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- criosphinx — a sphinx with the head of a ram instead of a human.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- croupiness — the condition of being afflicted with croup
- cupidinous — having a great desire or cupidity
- cyprinoids — Plural form of cyprinoid.
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- deaconship — (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clerical order next below that of a priest.
- deceptions — Plural form of deception.
- dendrophis — a genus of harmless tree-dwelling snake, of which varieties can be found in South America, India, Australia, Africa, and North America
- depictions — representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration: Picasso's painting Guernica is an accurate depiction of the horrors of war.
- depletions — Plural form of depletion.
- depositing — Present participle of deposit.
- deposition — A deposition is a formal written statement, made for example by a witness to a crime, which can be used in a court of law if the witness cannot be present.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- desciption — Misspelling of description.
- desorption — the action or process of desorbing
- despoiling — plundering by force
- desponding — to be depressed by loss of hope, confidence, or courage.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- diphosgene — a colorless liquid, C 2 Cl 4 O 2 , usually derived from methyl formate or methyl chloroformate by chlorination: a World War I poison gas now used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- diphthongs — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.