10-letter words containing p, o, n, y, t
- point duty — the stationing of a policeman or traffic warden at a road junction to control and direct traffic
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polycotton — cotton and poliester blend fabric
- polydontia — the condition of having more than the normal number of teeth.
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polytunnel — a large tunnel made of polythene and used as a greenhouse
- polyvalent — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- pyroxenite — any rock composed essentially, or in large part, of pyroxene of any kind.
- pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- symphonist — a composer who writes symphonies.
- syncopated — marked by syncopation: syncopated rhythm.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tautophony — the repetition of a sound
- tawny port — a type of port that is aged in wood for at least 7 years, giving it a 'nutty' flavour; its colour is tawny, as opposed to the red of a ruby port
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- timor pony — a small stocky breed of pony originally bred in Timor, used on Australian ranches
- top twenty — the twenty most important or successful items in a particular list
- toponymics — the study of place-names
- toponymist — a person who studies place names