10-letter words containing s, l, i, p, n
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- politeness — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- pollenosis — hay fever.
- pollinosis — hay fever.
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polylysine — a type of synthetic polypeptide used to enable adhesion of cells to microscope slides
- polynesian — of or relating to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- praisingly — in a praising manner; with praise
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- princessly — resembling a princess
- principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- propulsion — the act or process of propelling.
- prosilient — prominent
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- 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
- punch list — a list of unfinished matters that require attention.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- quintuples — Plural form of quintuple.
- respelling — to spell again or anew.
- sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
- saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- salpingian — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- sapiential — containing, exhibiting, or affording wisdom; characterized by wisdom.
- scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
- scallopini — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
- scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
- seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- septennial — occurring every seven years.
- septillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
- shell pink — delicate whitish to yellow pink.