10-letter words containing o, y, s, t, e
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- resolutely — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
- resonantly — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- roystering — roister.
- roysterous — boisterous
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- sentry box — a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.
- separatory — serving to separate.
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- siderocyte — an erythrocyte that contains iron in forms other than hematin.
- six-storey — having six floors or storeys
- skytrooper — a paratrooper.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- soft money — money contributed to a political candidate or party that is not subject to federal regulations.
- solenocyte — a type of long, narrow, flagellated cell that functions in excretion of nitrogenous wastes and occurs in a variety of organisms, including certain annelids and mollusks.
- somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
- soothsayer — a person who professes to foretell events.
- sooty tern — a black and white tern, Sterna fuscata, of small tropical islands.
- southernly — southerly.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- sporocytes — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- stable boy — A stable boy is a young man who works in a stable looking after the horses.
- stake body — an open truck body having a platform with sockets at the edge into which upright stakes may be placed to form a fence around a load.
- stationery — writing paper.
- stay loose — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.