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10-letter words containing p, o, s, t

  • arthropods — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually a chitinous shell that undergoes moltings, including the insects, spiders and other arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods.
  • artocarpus — a genus of the mulberry family, originating in Asia, species of which include the jackfruit and the breadfruit
  • ascription — the act of ascribing
  • asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
  • aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
  • aspirators — Plural form of aspirator.
  • aspiratory — of or suited for breathing or suction
  • assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
  • asthenopia — a strained condition of the eyes, often with headache, dizziness, etc.
  • astrograph — a navigational device for projecting altitude curves of the stars and planets onto charts or plotting sheets.
  • astrophoto — (astronomy, photography) An image of one or more celestial objects made using techniques of astrophotography.
  • asymptotes — Plural form of asymptote.
  • asymptotic — of or referring to an asymptote
  • atmosphere — A planet's atmosphere is the layer of air or other gases around it.
  • attoparsec — (unit, humour)   About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
  • audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
  • australorp — a heavy black breed of domestic fowl
  • authorship — The authorship of a piece of writing is the identity of the person who wrote it.
  • autographs — Plural form of autograph.
  • autopilots — Plural form of autopilot.
  • autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
  • autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
  • autoscopic — of or relating to an out-of-body experience
  • autotrophs — Plural form of autotroph.
  • auxotrophs — Plural form of auxotroph.
  • azeotropes — Plural form of azeotrope.
  • ballpoints — Plural form of ballpoint.
  • bench stop — a metal device set flush with the top of a workbench and having a portion able to be raised to stop longitudinal movement of an object placed against it.
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
  • blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
  • blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
  • blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
  • bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
  • box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
  • bsp method — (programming)   A CASE method from IBM.
  • bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
  • bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
  • caespitose — growing in dense tufts
  • calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
  • camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
  • campstools — Plural form of campstool.
  • cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
  • capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
  • capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
  • cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
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