10-letter words containing s, t, o, l, p
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
- liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- loon pants — trousers that flare from the knee
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- monopolist — a person who has a monopoly.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- newel post — a post supporting one end of a handrail at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs.
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- nonspatial — of or relating to space.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- octoploids — Plural form of octoploid.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optologist — a person who tests eyes for lenses
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palo santo — a South American tree, Bulnesia sarmienti, of the caltrop family, yielding a fragrant essential oil.
- 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.
- pantaloons — 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.
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich [German yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh] /German ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer.
- 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.
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- 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.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photolysis — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- piccoloist — a person who plays the piccolo.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.