10-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonpersons — Plural form of nonperson.
- nonprossed — Simple past tense and past participle of nonpros.
- nonspeaker — a person who does not or cannot speak
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- nose drops — medicinal drops applied via the nostrils
- nrem sleep — slow-wave sleep.
- nurse crop — a crop planted in the same field with another crop, especially to minimize the growth of weeds.
- on purpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- open doors — the policy of admitting people of all nationalities or ethnic groups to a country upon equal terms, as for immigration.
- opensource — Alternative spelling of open-source.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- oppressing — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
- oppression — the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantheress — a female panther
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paraenesis — advice
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- parischane — a parish
- parisienne — a girl or woman who is a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pedernales — a river in central Texas, flowing E to the Colorado river. About 105 miles (169 km) long.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- pennycress — any of several plants belonging to herbs of the genus Thlaspi, of the mustard family, especially T. arvense, of Europe, bearing somewhat round, flat pods.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pensioneer — to canvas votes by promising higher pensions
- 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.
- per mensem — by the month.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.