10-letter words containing s, o, u, p, t
- pluviosity — of or relating to rain; rainy.
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polytocous — flowering multiple times during a lifetime
- polytomous — the act or process of dividing into more than three parts.
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- populistic — a member of the People's party.
- port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- 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.
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- post house — a house or inn keeping post horses.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- postulatum — a postulate
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- procrustes — a robber who stretched or amputated the limbs of travelers to make them conform to the length of his bed. He was killed by Theseus.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- propertius — Sextus [seks-tuh s] /ˈsɛks təs/ (Show IPA), c50–c15 b.c, Roman poet.
- propitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- propositus — Law. the person from whom a line of descent is derived on a genealogical table.
- prosciutto — salted ham that has been cured by drying, always sliced paper-thin for serving.
- prosecutor — Law. prosecuting attorney. a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
- prospectus — a document describing the major features of a proposed literary work, project, business venture, etc., in enough detail so that prospective investors, participants, or buyers may evaluate it: Don't buy the new stock offering until you read the prospectus carefully.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- prostitute — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostomium — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the head of certain lower invertebrates.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- protrusion — the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- pseudosuit — /soo'doh-s[y]oot"/ A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.