10-letter words containing p, a, u, s
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
- parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
- pari passu — with equal pace or progress; side by side.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- pea souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
- pea-souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- pennsauken — a township in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm