10-letter words containing p, e, s, a
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hypalgesia — decreased sensitivity to pain (opposed to hyperalgesia).
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
- hypersparc — (processor) The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
- hyphenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hyphenate.
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hypostases — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- imparadise — to enrapture.
- imparities — Plural form of imparity.
- impassable — not passable; not allowing passage over, through, along, etc.: Heavy snow made the roads impassable.
- impassible — incapable of suffering pain.
- impedances — Plural form of impedance.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- imprecates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imprecate.
- impresario — a person who organizes or manages public entertainments, especially operas, ballets, or concerts.
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- inapposite — not apposite; not pertinent.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- infraposed — placed beneath
- inpatients — Plural form of inpatient.
- inseparate — (obsolete) Not separate; together; united.
- inspirable — capable of being inspired.
- inspissate — Thicken or congeal.
- interphase — the period of the cell cycle during which the nucleus is not undergoing division, typically occurring between mitotic or meiotic divisions. Also called interkinesis. Compare G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- interspace — a space between things.
- intraphase — (chemistry, physics) Within a phase.
- ip address — a code that identifies a computer network or a particular computer or other device on a network, consisting of four numbers separated by periods. See also IP.
- irish pale — pale2 (def 6).
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- jackanapes — an impertinent, presumptuous person, especially a young man; whippersnapper.