10-letter words containing p, e, s, a
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pacesetter — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pangenesis — the theory that a reproductive cell contains gemmules or invisible germs that were derived from the individual cells from every part of the organism and that these gemmules are the bearers of hereditary attributes.
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- pantheress — a female panther
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- paper loss — an investment loss which has occurred but not yet been realized
- paper shop — A paper shop is a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, and also things such as tobacco, sweets, and cards.
- paper wasp — any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance consisting of chewed plant material.
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- 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.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paraenesis — advice
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- parameters — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parapraxes — a slip of the tongue or pen, forgetfulness, misplacement of objects, or other error thought to reveal unconscious wishes or attitudes.
- pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- 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
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.