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10-letter words containing s, p, o, r, u

  • pc support — (job)   (Or "PC analyst", end user support) A person who works with microcomputer applications including word processors, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, database management systems, electronic mail, and communications. He also evaluates, installs and supports PCs, Macintoshes, and associated peripherals.
  • pea souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • pea-souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
  • percursory — passing through rapidly; cursory
  • percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
  • perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
  • periculous — dangerous; perilous
  • perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
  • perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
  • periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
  • pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
  • petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
  • phosphorus — Chemistry. a solid, nonmetallic element existing in at least three allotropic forms, one that is yellow, poisonous, flammable, and luminous in the dark, one that is red, less poisonous, and less flammable, and another that is black, insoluble in most solvents, and the least flammable. The element is used in forming smoke screens, its compounds are used in matches and phosphate fertilizers, and it is a necessary constituent of plant and animal life in bones, nerves, and embryos. Symbol: P; atomic weight: 30.974; atomic number: 15; specific gravity: (yellow) 1.82 at 20°C, (red) 2.20 at 20°C, (black) 2.25–2.69 at 20°C.
  • phosphuret — a phosphate
  • piliferous — having or producing hair.
  • plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
  • plus-fours — Plus-fours are short wide trousers fastened below the knees which people used to wear when hunting or playing golf.
  • podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
  • poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
  • polymerous — Biology. composed of many parts.
  • pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
  • pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • poriferous — bearing or having pores.
  • porousness — full of pores.
  • porphyrous — of or relating to porphyry
  • porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
  • port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
  • port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
  • port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
  • 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.
  • portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
  • portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
  • portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
  • postocular — located behind the eye
  • postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
  • postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
  • posturized — to posture; pose.
  • powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
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