10-letter words containing s, p, i, n, e
- pig-sconce — a foolish person
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pine mouse — any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; especially the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum.
- pine snake — any of several subspecies of bullsnake of the eastern and southeastern U.S., chiefly in pine woods: now threatened.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pink noise — a random signal within the audible frequency range whose amplitude decreases as frequency increases, maintaining constant audio power per frequency increment.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- pint-sized — If you describe someone or something as pint-sized, you think they are smaller than is normal or smaller than they should be.
- pipe snake — any of several nonvenomous, burrowing snakes of the genus Cylindrophis, of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, having an evenly cylindrical body.
- pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- 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.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- plushiness — the condition of being plush
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- 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.
- point-wise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- poison-pen — composed or sent maliciously, as a letter, usually anonymously and for the purpose of damaging another's reputation or happiness: The newspaper received a poison-pen letter alleging that the mayor was misusing city funds.
- poisonable — able to be poisoned
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- politeness — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- pollenosis — hay fever.
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polylysine — a type of synthetic polypeptide used to enable adhesion of cells to microscope slides
- polynesian — of or relating to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- possessing — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- possession — the act or fact of possessing.
- pre-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- predestine — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- prednisone — an analogue of cortisone, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 5 , used as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antineoplastic in the treatment of various diseases.