10-letter words containing s, p, u, r, i
- impostrous — (archaic) Characterized by imposture; deceitful.
- impostures — Plural form of imposture.
- impressure — impression.
- impromptus — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
- impureness — The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
- impurities — the quality or state of being impure.
- inpourings — Plural form of inpouring.
- interrupts — interrupt
- irruptions — Plural form of irruption.
- isopterous — belonging or pertaining to social insects of the order Isoptera, comprising the termites.
- isosporous — having spores of only one kind
- isotropous — (archaic) isotropic.
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- micropumps — Plural form of micropump.
- muciparous — muciferous.
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- nisi prius — Also called nisi prius court. a trial court for the hearing of civil cases before a judge and jury.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- omniparous — producing or generating all things
- opium wars — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- pari passu — with equal pace or progress; side by side.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
- pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pc pursuit — A TELENET service which enabled people to dial up BBSes in other cities for less than normal long-distance rates. PC Pursuit died because TELENET were too mean to upgrade beyond 2400 bits per second.
- pedicurist — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- percussive — of, relating to, or characterized by percussion.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- 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.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- 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.
- perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.