10-letter words containing s, t, e, l
- plastotype — a casting of a type specimen, especially of a fossil.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.
- plateglass — designating a kind of glass used for windows
- plattensee — German name of Balaton.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- pleasantly — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasanton — a town in W California.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- plebiscite — a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- plow steel — steel that contains 0.5 to 0.95 percent carbon.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- politeness — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- postillate — to annotate, to postil
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- pottsville — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- prize list — a list of winners of a prize or prizes
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- prosilient — prominent
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protostele — the solid stele of most roots, having a central core of xylem enclosed by phloem.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah