10-letter words containing p, e, s, a
- lesser ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mediascape — Communications media as a whole.
- mediaspeak — The jargon used by the media.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megapixels — Plural form of megapixel.
- megaplexes — Plural form of megaplex.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- megaspores — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metaphasic — Relating to metaphase.
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysic — metaphysics.
- metaphysis — (anatomy) The part of a long bone that grows during development.
- metaplasia — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metaplasis — the second of three stages of ontogenetic development proposed by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, in which the development of the individual is complete
- mindscapes — Plural form of mindscape.
- mis-shaped — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- misapplies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapply.
- misexplain — (transitive) To explain incorrectly.