10-letter words containing p, i, s, e, r
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- micropenis — (medical) An unusually small penis.
- micropores — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microscope — an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- microspore — the smaller of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and some fern allies, developing into a male gametophyte. Compare megaspore,
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- misimprove — to make worse in trying to make better
- misperform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- misreports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misreport.
- miter post — meeting post.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- necropsied — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
- necropsies — Plural form of necropsy.
- neotropics — Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- noiseproof — soundproof.
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- oppressing — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- oppression — the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- orthoepist — the study of correct pronunciation.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- 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.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- 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
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)