10-letter words containing s, a, i, n, t, p
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- saint pius — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
- sapiential — containing, exhibiting, or affording wisdom; characterized by wisdom.
- satin spar — a fibrous variety of gypsum having a silky luster, used as a gem.
- seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- septennial — occurring every seven years.
- septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
- shahaptian — Sahaptian
- skin patch — an adhesive patch stuck to the skin to slowly and steadily release medicine into the bloodstream
- spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
- spartanism — Also, Spartanic [spahr-tan-ik] /spɑrˈtæn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Sparta or its people.
- spatangoid — a type of sea urchin
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- speciation — the formation of new species as a result of geographic, physiological, anatomical, or behavioral factors that prevent previously interbreeding populations from breeding with each other.
- spectating — to participate as a spectator, as at a horse race.
- spinal tap — procedure to draw fluid from spine
- spirantize — to change into or pronounce as a spirant.
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- stainproof — resistant to stains
- standpoint — the point or place at which a person stands to view something.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- star point — a common junction connected to the ends of windings of a polyphase electrical device or system of devices
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stephanite — a mineral, silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 : an ore of silver.