10-letter words containing s, e, m, p, t
- misreports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misreport.
- misstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of misstep.
- miter post — meeting post.
- monopteros — monopteron.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mote spoon — a small spoon with a pierced bowl for removing tea leaves from a cup of tea.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- ms project — Microsoft Project
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplies — Plural form of multiply.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- nameplates — Plural form of nameplate.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- outpromise — to promise more than
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- parameters — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentstemon — penstemon.
- periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- pesterment — the fact of pestering or of being subjected to pestering behaviour
- pestersome — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
- postmodern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
- postmortem — of, relating to, or occurring in the time following death.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
- prestamped — stamped in advance