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10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, o

  • overstayer — a person who illegally remains in a country after the period of the permitted visit has expired
  • overstitch — a stitch made with a sewing machine, for binding or finishing a raw edge or hem.
  • overstored — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
  • overstorey — the highest level of trees in a rainforest
  • overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
  • overstress — overemphasize.
  • overstrewn — scattered over
  • overstride — to surpass: to overstride one's competitors.
  • overstrike — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
  • overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
  • overstrong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • overstruck — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
  • overstrung — overly tense or sensitive; strained; on edge: Their nerves were badly overstrung.
  • oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
  • overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
  • oyster bay — a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby.
  • oyster bed — a place where oysters breed or are cultivated.
  • oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
  • oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
  • palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
  • part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
  • pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
  • patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • 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.
  • perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
  • periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
  • 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.
  • permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
  • perovskite — a naturally occurring titanate of calcium, CaTiO 3 , found as yellow, brown, or black cubic crystals, usually in metamorphic rocks.
  • persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • personalty — personal estate or property.
  • pestersome — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
  • 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)
  • petrostate — a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few
  • phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
  • phosphuret — a phosphate
  • piesporter — any of various white wines from the area around the village of Piesport in the Moselle valley in Germany
  • pinspotter — pinsetter.
  • poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
  • polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
  • 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.
  • portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • positioner — a person or thing that positions.
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