10-letter words containing s, p, o, n, r, e
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- porousness — full of pores.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- postmodern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
- postperson — a person who collects and delivers post as a profession
- pre-censor — to determine arbitrarily in advance what may or may not be permitted in (books, films, news releases, etc.)
- 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.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- 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.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- presswoman — a female reporter
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- pronephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, which becomes the functional kidney of certain primitive fishes.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- propensely — with propensity
- propension — propensity.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- properness — adapted or appropriate to the purpose or circumstances; fit; suitable: the proper time to plant strawberries.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proserpina — Persephone.
- proserpine — Also, Proserpina, Proserpine. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Pluto to be queen of Hades, but allowed to return to the surface of the earth for part of the year.
- prosilient — prominent
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protension — duration
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
- protestant — any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.