10-letter words containing s, t, e, p, l
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelletised — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- peoplesoft — (application, company) A company selling web-based ERP systems. Originally PeopleSoft supplied human resource management systems, they now provide financial data management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, workforce management, and data analytics systems.
- peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich [German yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh] /German ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer.
- pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
- petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- petrópolis — a city in SE Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro: resort. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- philistine — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- photocells — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pistillode — a sterile pistil, or one with a simple structure and reduced size and function
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pitilessly — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- plaintless — without complaint
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- 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.
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- plastotype — a casting of a type specimen, especially of a fossil.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.