10-letter words containing s, a, m, p, l
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- plagiarism — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- plasmagene — a self-replicating genetic particle postulated to be in the cytoplasm of a cell, as in mitochondria.
- plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
- plasmolyse — to subject (a cell) to plasmolysis or (of a cell) to undergo plasmolysis
- plasmolyze — to subject to or undergo plasmolysis
- plasmosoma — a nucleolus
- plasmosome — a true nucleolus, as distinguished from a karyosome.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- play games — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
- polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymerase — any of several enzymes that catalyze the formation of a long-chain molecule by linking smaller molecular units, as nucleotides with nucleic acids.
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- postmortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- postulatum — a postulate
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- protoplasm — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- simplicial — relating to simplexes
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- small chop — cocktail snacks
- small pica — (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 11 point
- someplaces — somewhere
- specialism — devotion or restriction to a particular pursuit, branch of study, etc.
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- spiral arm — any of the elongated and curved spiral sections that are connected to the center of a spiral galaxy.
- splash dam — a flood dam built to contain water that is released for driving logs.