10-letter words containing s, p, e, r, m, i
- impureness — The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
- impurities — the quality or state of being impure.
- isotopomer — (chemistry) any isomer of an organic compound differing only in the position of an isotope.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- membership — the state of being a member, as of a society or club.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- micropenis — (medical) An unusually small penis.
- micropores — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microscope — an optical instrument having a magnifying lens or a combination of lenses for inspecting objects too small to be seen or too small to be seen distinctly and in detail by the unaided eye.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- microspore — the smaller of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and some fern allies, developing into a male gametophyte. Compare megaspore,
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- misimprove — to make worse in trying to make better
- misperform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- misreports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misreport.
- miter post — meeting post.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- myrioscope — a form of kaleidoscope
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- outpromise — to promise more than
- overimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- 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.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- permissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- peroxisome — a cell organelle containing catalase, peroxidase, and other oxidative enzymes and performing essential metabolic functions, as the decomposition of fatty acids and hydrogen peroxide.
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- polymerise — to subject to polymerization.
- polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.