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10-letter words containing p, a, s, m

  • postulatum — a postulate
  • pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
  • pragmatism — character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.
  • pragmatist — a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
  • pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
  • premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • presswoman — a female reporter
  • prestamped — stamped in advance
  • presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
  • presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
  • priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
  • proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
  • prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
  • proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
  • protoplasm — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
  • psalmodize — to sing psalms
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • psammosere — a sere originating on sand or sandy soil.
  • pseudimago — (of insects) a form similar to the adult, but which is not a true adult
  • pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
  • psittacism — mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.
  • psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means
  • ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
  • ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
  • puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • re-baptism — a new or second baptism
  • reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
  • roma gypsy — a member of a people scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • sachemship — the office of a sachem
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • sapperment — a German oath
  • sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
  • scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
  • scampishly — in a scampish manner
  • scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
  • seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
  • semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • semiopaque — partly or nearly opaque.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
  • septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
  • sheep farm — place where sheep are raised
  • shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
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