10-letter words containing s, i, p
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- 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.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palinopsia — a visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- 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.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pangenesis — the theory that a reproductive cell contains gemmules or invisible germs that were derived from the individual cells from every part of the organism and that these gemmules are the bearers of hereditary attributes.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
- 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
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- pantywaist — Informal. a weak, effeminate man; sissy.
- papillitis — the inflammation of a papilla
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- parabiosis — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paradisaic — paradisiacal.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paradisiac — of, like, or befitting paradise.
- paraenesis — advice
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paragnosis — knowledge obtained by supernatural means
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- paralipsis — the suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in “not to mention other faults.”.
- parallaxis — (language) A procedural programming language developed by Thomas Braeunl <[email protected]> at the University of Stuttgart. It is based on Modula-2, but extended for data parallel (SIMD) programming. The main approach for machine independent parallel programming is to include a description of the virtual parallel machine with each parallel algorithm. There is a simulator and X Window System-based profiler for workstations, Macintosh, and IBM PC. Version 2.0 runs on MP-1, CM-2, Sun-3, Sun-4, DECstation, HP 700, RS/6000.
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- paraphasia — a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parapraxis — a slip of the tongue or pen, forgetfulness, misplacement of objects, or other error thought to reveal unconscious wishes or attitudes.
- parasitism — Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pari passu — with equal pace or progress; side by side.