10-letter words containing s, e, m, p, t
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- protostome — any member of the lower invertebrate phyla in which the mouth appears before the anus during development, cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the coelom forms as a splitting of the mesoderm.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- 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.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sapperment — a German oath
- scepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- 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.
- sempstress — seamstress.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- septectomy — excision of part or all of a septum, especially the nasal septum.
- septennium — a period or cycle of seven years
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- septicemic — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
- sketch map — a rough map of the principal features of a locale, as one drawn from memory.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slump test — a test to determine the relative water content of concrete, depending on the loss in height (slump) of a sample obtained from a cone-shaped mould
- smarten up — improve appearance
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
- snmp agent — (networking) A software process that responds to queries using the Simple Network Management Protocol to provide status and statistics about a network node.
- somatotype — (of humans) physical type; physique.
- space-time — Also called space-time continuum. the four-dimensional continuum, having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate, in which all physical quantities may be located.
- spare time — leisure hours
- speleothem — a natural structure within a cave
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi