10-letter words containing s, c, r, a, p
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- megaparsec — one million parsecs.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- muckspread — to muckrake
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pacesetter — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paradisaic — paradisiacal.
- paradisiac — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- parischane — a parish
- parodistic — parodic.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
- pas marche — a marching step.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patristics — patrology (def 1).
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pediatrics — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- pescadores — (used with a plural verb) Penghu.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
- postocular — located behind the eye
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes