10-letter words containing s, t, o, m, p
- patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentstemon — penstemon.
- 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.
- pestersome — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polishment — the state of being polished or the action of polishing
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytomous — the act or process of dividing into more than three parts.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- positivism — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
- postmating — of or designating the period after mating
- postmodern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
- postmortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- postmortem — of, relating to, or occurring in the time following death.
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postulatum — a postulate
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- prostomium — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the head of certain lower invertebrates.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- protoplasm — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- protostome — any member of the lower invertebrate phyla in which the mouth appears before the anus during development, cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the coelom forms as a splitting of the mesoderm.
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.