10-letter words containing s, i, r, p
- nonprofits — Plural form of nonprofit.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- nootropics — Plural form of nootropic.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- offsprings — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- oophoritis — inflammation of an ovary, usually combined with an inflammation of the Fallopian tubes; ovaritis.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- 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.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- orpharions — Plural form of orpharion.
- orthoepist — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
- orthoptics — a method of exercising the eye and its muscles in order to cure strabismus or improve vision.
- orthoptist — One who practices orthoptics.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- ovipositor — (in certain female insects) an organ at the end of the abdomen, by which eggs are deposited.
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- 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.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- 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
- 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