10-letter words containing s, o, r, t, a
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- petrostate — a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polar star — north star
- poltoratsk — a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polystylar — relating to a polystyle
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- postarrest — following an arrest, occurring after someone has been arrested
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
- postmortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
- prostrated — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagoras — c480–c421 b.c, Greek Sophist philosopher.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- protestant — any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protoplasm — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- protoplast — Biology. the contents of a cell within the cell membrane, considered as a fundamental entity. the primordial living unit or cell.
- put across — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radio mast — transmission tower
- radio star — a radio source.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.