10-letter words containing s, p, e, n, t, a
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- past tense — grammar: verb tense of past actions or states
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- pensionnat — a simple boarding house or small hotel in France
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- plaintless — without complaint
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- plattensee — German name of Balaton.
- pleasantly — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasanton — a town in W California.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- poinsettia — a plant, Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of the spurge family, native to Mexico and Central America, having variously lobed leaves and brilliant scarlet, pink, or white petallike bracts.
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- postseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- 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.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- respectant — aspectant.
- resupinate — bent backward.