10-letter words containing s, p, o, i
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polylysine — a type of synthetic polypeptide used to enable adhesion of cells to microscope slides
- polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymerise — to subject to polymerization.
- polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.
- polynesian — of or relating to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- populistic — a member of the People's party.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- poroscopic — of or pertaining to poroscopy
- porpoising — any of several small, gregarious cetaceans of the genus Phocoena, usually blackish above and paler beneath, and having a blunt, rounded snout, especially the common porpoise, P. phocoena, of both the North Atlantic and Pacific.
- port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- portionist — a student at Merton College, Oxford who receives a food or academic allowance from the College, later referred to as a postmaster
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- positivism — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- positivist — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- positivity — the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.
- 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.
- possessive — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postcrisis — taking place after a crisis
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- postillate — to annotate, to postil
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- 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
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- postprison — relating to or occurring in the period after a person has been incarcerated
- postscript — a paragraph, phrase, etc., added to a letter that has already been concluded and signed by the writer.
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- posttibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- posturized — to posture; pose.