10-letter words containing p, s, a, m, o
- gamba stop — an organ stop with a tone resembling that of stringed instruments
- gomphiasis — looseness of the teeth.
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homographs — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- impassions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impassion.
- imperators — Plural form of imperator.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- impresario — a person who organizes or manages public entertainments, especially operas, ballets, or concerts.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- malapropos — inappropriate; out of place; inopportune; untimely: a malapropos remark.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- mason wasp — any of several solitary wasps, as Rygchium dorsale, that construct nests of mud or clay.
- mastopathy — any disease of the breast.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- 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.
- 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
- misappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- miscaption — to provide with an incorrect caption
- misocapnic — having a dislike or hate of tobacco smoke
- misophonia — A neurological disorder in which negative experiences, such as anger or disgust, are triggered by specific sounds.
- misprogram — to program badly or wrongly
- monographs — Plural form of monograph.
- monophasia — (pathology) A type of aphasia where the sufferer is only able to speak a single word or sentence.
- monophasic — having one phase.
- monoplanes — Plural form of monoplane.