10-letter words containing s, t, p
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pillionist — a passenger riding on the pillion of a motorcycle
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- pint-sized — If you describe someone or something as pint-sized, you think they are smaller than is normal or smaller than they should be.
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pistillode — a sterile pistil, or one with a simple structure and reduced size and function
- piston pin — wrist pin.
- piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
- pitch shot — a shot in which the ball is hit high into the air and with backspin to ensure little roll upon landing, used in approaching the green.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
- pitilessly — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- pityriasis — Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plaintless — without complaint
- planoblast — the medusa of a hydroid.
- plant cost — the cost to a business of mechanical equipment
- 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.
- plasticity — the quality or state of being plastic.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- plastidial — relating to a plastid
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- plastilina — a non-drying, oil-based modeling material
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- 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.
- plateglass — designating a kind of glass used for windows
- plattensee — German name of Balaton.
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- pleasantly — pleasing, agreeable, or enjoyable; giving pleasure: pleasant news.
- pleasanton — a town in W California.