10-letter words containing s, i, o, u
- outfitters — Plural form of outfitter.
- outgassing — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outgushing — Present participle of outgush.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outpassion — to surpass in passion
- outpromise — to promise more than
- outraising — Present participle of outraise.
- outriggers — Plural form of outrigger.
- outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
- outscoring — Present participle of outscore.
- outselling — Present participle of outsell.
- outsetting — the act of public proclamation
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- outside in — another term for inside out
- outside of — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- outsinging — Present participle of outsing.
- outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
- outstation — a post, station, or settlement in a remote or outlying area.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- overinsure — to insure in excess of actual value
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- oxyuriasis — human infection with pinworms.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- 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.
- perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- pine mouse — any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; especially the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum.
- pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- 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.
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plus point — an advantage or positive characteristic
- pluviosity — of or relating to rain; rainy.
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.