10-letter words containing s, t, o, p, a
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- post-dated — On a post-dated cheque, the date is a later one than the date when the cheque was actually written. You write a post-dated cheque to allow a period of time before the money is taken from your account.
- post-haste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- postarrest — following an arrest, occurring after someone has been arrested
- 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.
- postattack — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postdebate — of or relating to the period after a debate
- postillate — to annotate, to postil
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- 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
- postmortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- posttibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- postulatum — a postulate
- praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
- prostrated — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- protagoras — c480–c421 b.c, Greek Sophist philosopher.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- protestant — any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- protistans — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- 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.
- protoplast — Biology. the contents of a cell within the cell membrane, considered as a fundamental entity. the primordial living unit or cell.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- 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.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner