10-letter words containing s, t, p
- port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- 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.
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portionist — a student at Merton College, Oxford who receives a food or academic allowance from the College, later referred to as a postmaster
- 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.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- positivism — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- positivist — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- positivity — the state or character of being positive: a positivity that accepts the world as it is.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- post horse — a horse kept, as at a station on a post road, for the use of persons riding post or for hire by travelers.
- post house — a house or inn keeping post horses.
- 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.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- 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.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postcrisis — taking place after a crisis
- postdebate — of or relating to the period after a debate
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- postfreeze — taking place after a freeze
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postillate — to annotate, to postil
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- 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.
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postperson — a person who collects and delivers post as a profession
- postponing — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- postprison — relating to or occurring in the period after a person has been incarcerated