10-letter words containing s, p, o, n, r
- person-day — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on an ideal amount of work done by one person in one working day.
- personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- personably — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
- personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
- personally — through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- personhood — the state or fact of being a person.
- personnels — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- perversion — the act of perverting.
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- pheromones — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
- planospore — a zoospore.
- pod person — a person who behaves in a strange esp mechanical way, as if not fully human
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- porousness — full of pores.
- 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 sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portionist — a student at Merton College, Oxford who receives a food or academic allowance from the College, later referred to as a postmaster
- 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
- postprison — relating to or occurring in the period after a person has been incarcerated
- 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.
- prick song — written music.
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- print shop — a shop where prints or graphics are sold.
- printworks — (used with a singular or plural verb) a factory that prints textiles or other materials.
- prison van — vehicle to transfer prisoners
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.