10-letter words containing s, p, o, i, l
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
- liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- logogriphs — Plural form of logogriph.
- logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- lopsidedly — In a lopsided manner.
- lyophilise — Alternative spelling of lyophilize.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- micropolis — a small city
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- misdevelop — to develop in a faulty or abnormal manner
- monopolies — exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
- monopolise — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- monopolism — the existence or prevalence of monopolies.
- monopolist — a person who has a monopoly.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- 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.
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- 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.
- nonplusing — Present participle of nonplus.
- nonspatial — of or relating to space.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- octoploids — Plural form of octoploid.
- oenophiles — Plural form of oenophile.
- oligopsony — the market condition that exists when there are few buyers, as a result of which they can greatly influence price and other market factors.
- on impulse — instinctively
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- opposingly — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optologist — a person who tests eyes for lenses
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palinopsia — a visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
- pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.