10-letter words containing s, t, r, i, p
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- mispredict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- misprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of misprint.
- misreports — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misreport.
- miter post — meeting post.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motor ship — a ship propelled by an internal-combustion engine or engines
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- neotropics — Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.
- nitpickers — Plural form of nitpicker.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonprofits — Plural form of nonprofit.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- nootropics — Plural form of nootropic.
- oophoritis — inflammation of an ovary, usually combined with an inflammation of the Fallopian tubes; ovaritis.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- orthoepist — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
- orthoptics — a method of exercising the eye and its muscles in order to cure strabismus or improve vision.
- orthoptist — One who practices orthoptics.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- ovipositor — (in certain female insects) an organ at the end of the abdomen, by which eggs are deposited.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- parasitism — Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parodistic — parodic.
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- parti pris — a position or attitude resolved upon or taken in advance.
- partialism — a theory or view that does not take into account all the facts
- partialist — a person who is partial
- partisanly — in a partisan manner
- party list — of or relating to a system of voting in which people vote for a party rather than for a candidate. Parties are assigned the number of seats which reflects their share of the vote
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.