10-letter words containing p, u, s, h
- punch list — a list of unfinished matters that require attention.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- purchasing — buying
- pursership — the position of purser
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- push ahead — move sth forward
- push along — to go away
- push aside — shove to one side
- push broom — a wide broom with a long handle, pushed by hand and used for sweeping large areas.
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- push plate — a rectangular protective plate of metal, plastic, ceramic, or other material applied vertically to the lock stile of a door.
- push-start — to start (a motor vehicle) by pushing it while it is in gear, thus turning the engine
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- pussy-whip — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
- pyrophorus — a substance which ignites when exposed to air
- repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- schtupping — to have sexual intercourse with.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- scrunch up — If you scrunch something up, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed.
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- slush pile — a collection of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- snowplough — A snowplough is a vehicle which is used to push snow off roads or railway lines.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- spathulate — spatulate.
- speed hump — bump in road that slows traffic
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- spike-rush — any perennial plant of the temperate cyperaceous genus Eleocharis, occurring esp by ponds, and having underground stems, narrow leaves, and small flowers
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- sprightful — sprightly.
- spur wheel — spur gear.
- strophulus — a papular eruption of the skin, especially in infants, occurring in several forms and usually harmless.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters