10-letter words containing s, p, i, n, m
- on impulse — instinctively
- opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- optimising — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- 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.
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- 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.
- 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.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- phoenixism — the process of making a business insolvent in order to evade paying debts and then setting the business up again under a new name
- pianissimo — very soft.
- 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.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- pyrrhonism — the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
- reimprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scrimpness — sparingness
- seamanship — knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship.
- septennium — a period or cycle of seven years
- ship money — a tax levied to finance the fitting out of warships: abolished 1640
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simpleness — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.