10-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- misappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- miscaption — to provide with an incorrect caption
- mispayment — Incorrect payment.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- nameplates — Plural form of nameplate.
- naphthenes — any of a group of hydrocarbon ring compounds of the general formula, C n H 2n , derivatives of cyclopentane and cyclohexane, found in certain petroleums.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonseptate — not having a septum
- nonspatial — of or relating to space.
- nostopathy — a fear of returning home, often observed in those who have been in institutions such as prison or hospital for a long time
- not a snap — not a bit; not at all
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- optic axis — (in a crystal exhibiting double refraction) the direction or directions, uniaxial or biaxial, respectively, along which this phenomenon does not occur.
- organ stop — a set of organ pipes allowed to sound as a group by stopping all others
- osteopathy — a therapeutic system originally based upon the premise that manipulation of the muscles and bones to promote structural integrity could restore or preserve health: current osteopathic physicians use the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of conventional medicine as well as manipulative measures.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- outpassion — to surpass in passion
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pacesetter — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pacificist — a person who is opposed to violence
- pacifistic — of or relating to pacifism or pacifists.
- paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- paganistic — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palo santo — a South American tree, Bulnesia sarmienti, of the caltrop family, yielding a fragrant essential oil.