10-letter words containing s, i, l, u, r
- naturalist — a person who studies or is an expert in natural history, especially a zoologist or botanist.
- naviculars — Plural form of navicular.
- nebulizers — Plural form of nebulizer.
- neurolysin — (neuroscience, toxicology) A neurotoxin.
- neurolysis — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- neutralise — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
- neutralism — the policy or advocacy of maintaining strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- neutralist — a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- nullifiers — Plural form of nullifier.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- oleiferous — giving rise to oil, as certain seeds or hypha.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preclusive — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- prolixious — (of speech, music, writing) long-winded; drawn out
- propulsion — the act or process of propelling.
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- publishers — a publishing company
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- quadrilles — Plural form of quadrille.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quinestrol — a synthetic estrogen, C 2 5 H 3 2 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives.
- quiverfuls — Plural form of quiverful.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids