10-letter words containing p, a, s, o, m
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- moonscapes — Plural form of moonscape.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- mosaic map — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- mysophobia — a dread of dirt or filth.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- nomographs — Plural form of nomograph.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- 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
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- 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
- paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
- paroxysmal — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- passamezzo — an Italian dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to the pavane
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- pianissimo — very soft.
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- 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.
- plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
- plasmolyse — to subject (a cell) to plasmolysis or (of a cell) to undergo plasmolysis
- plasmolyze — to subject to or undergo plasmolysis
- plasmosoma — a nucleolus
- plasmosome — a true nucleolus, as distinguished from a karyosome.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.