10-letter words containing p, y, o, s, i
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polycystic — containing many cysts
- polydipsia — excessive thirst.
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polylysine — a type of synthetic polypeptide used to enable adhesion of cells to microscope slides
- polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymerise — to subject to polymerization.
- polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.
- polynesian — of or relating to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- positivity — the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.
- 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.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- procrypsis — a protective coloration in animals
- promissory — containing or implying a promise.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pyogenesis — the generation of pus; the process of the formation of pus.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrrhonism — the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- rhinoscopy — examination of the nasal passages, esp with a rhinoscope
- scyphiform — shaped like a cup or goblet.
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- ship's boy — a male attendant, as a cabin boy, steward, etc., employed to wait on a ship's passengers or officers.
- slipsloppy — wet and sloppy
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- speciosity — the quality or state of being specious.
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.