10-letter words containing s, o, u, p, y
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- propulsory — the act or process of propelling.
- 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.
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrophorus — a substance which ignites when exposed to air
- speciously — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- spoylefull — plundering
- spun rayon — yarn produced by spinning short, uniform lengths of rayon filaments into a continuous strand.
- spuriosity — something spurious
- spuriously — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- subcompany — subsidiary company.
- subpotency — a condition of reduced potency, as of a medication.
- superalloy — an alloy, often with a nickel, nickel-iron, or cobalt base, capable of withstanding very high temperatures, used in jet engines, rockets, etc.
- superiorly — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- supposably — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
- supposedly — assumed as true, regardless of fact; hypothetical: a supposed case.
- suspensory — a supporting bandage, muscle, ligament, etc.
- symphilous — of or relating to symphilism
- syncarpous — of the nature of or pertaining to a syncarp.
- tuboplasty — surgical repair of one or both Fallopian tubes
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- upholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- urinoscopy — uroscopy.
- usurpatory — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
- wood pussy — a skunk.
- wood-pussy — a skunk.