10-letter words containing s, a, r, p, l
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- prerelease — something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- 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.
- privy seal — (in Great Britain) the seal affixed to grants, documents, etc., that are to pass the great seal, and to documents of less importance that do not require the great seal.
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- proposable — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- proslavery — favoring slavery.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- 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.
- protoplast — Biology. the contents of a cell within the cell membrane, considered as a fundamental entity. the primordial living unit or cell.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pulse rate — the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
- respirable — capable of being respired.
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- rose apple — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Syzygium, of the myrtle family, especially S. jambos, of the East Indies, having showy, greenish-white flowers and oval, yellowish fruit.
- sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
- salary cap — a maximum limit on salaries.
- sale price — discounted cost
- sally port — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- satyr play — a burlesque or ribald drama having a chorus of satyrs, usually written by a poet to follow the poet's trilogy of tragedies presented at the Dionysian festival in ancient Greece.
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- sculptural — relating to sculpture
- seed pearl — a pearl weighing less than ¼ grain.
- separately — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
- sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- shopwalker — a floorwalker.
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- 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.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- solar apex — the point on the celestial sphere, near Vega, toward which the solar system is moving relative to the visible stars.
- solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
- solar ship — (in ancient Egypt) a boat placed in or near the tomb of a king to transport him to the sun.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
- sparkishly — in a sparkish manner
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- sparks fly — If sparks fly between people, they discuss something in an excited or angry way.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.