10-letter words containing s, e, t, n, a
- nightmares — Plural form of nightmare.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nightshade — any of various plants of the genus Solanum, especially the black nightshade or the bittersweet.
- non-satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- nonascetic — a person who is not an ascetic
- nonelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- nonnatives — Plural form of nonnative.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonseptate — not having a septum
- nonstarter — an issue, plan, etc., that does not get or deserve to get under way.
- nonstative — (of a verb) expressing an action or process, as run or grow, and able to be used in either simple or progressive tenses: I run every day. I am running home now.
- nonstellar — Not stellar.
- nor'easter — northeaster.
- north-east — The north-east is the direction which is halfway between north and east.
- nose about — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- novitiates — Plural form of novitiate.
- numerators — Plural form of numerator.
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- nutrasweet — a brand of artificial sweetener
- oblateness — (uncountable) The state of being oblate.
- obliterans — Producing obstruction due to inflammation and fibrosis.
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- octonaries — Plural form of octonary.
- one's meat — something that one especially enjoys or is skillful at
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- orientates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of orientate.
- originates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of originate.
- ornateness — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- ostensoria — Plural form of ostensorium.
- ostentator — (archaic) One fond of display; a boaster.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- ostranenie — defamiliarization.
- outlanders — Plural form of outlander.
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- pantheress — a female panther
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera