10-letter words containing s, p, r, i, n
- piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- pop singer — sb who sings popular music
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- 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.
- 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.
- postprison — relating to or occurring in the period after a person has been incarcerated
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praisingly — in a praising manner; with praise
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- pre-design — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- 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.
- predestine — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- 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.
- prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- prepensive — premeditated
- preppiness — the fact of being preppy
- prescience — knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- presenting — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- presentist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse are now being fulfilled. Compare futurist, preterist (def 1).
- presentive — notional (def 7).
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretensive — pretentious
- prettiness — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- 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.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- princesses — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.