10-letter words containing s, t, r, o, m
- outpromise — to promise more than
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- overmaster — to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower: The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me.
- overmodest — extremely modest
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- 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.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- radio mast — transmission tower
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- remoteness — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- removalist — a person or company that transports household effects to a new home
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- room rates — the rates charged daily for hotel rooms
- royal mast — a mast situated immediately above, and generally formed as a single spar with, a topgallant mast.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- sanatorium — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanitorium — a facility for housing patients with long-term illnesses
- sarmentose — having runners.
- sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- sclerotome — Embryology. the part of a mesodermal somite contributing to the development of the vertebrae and ribs.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- scotometer — a device used for measuring a scotoma's size, shape and intensity
- sermonette — a brief sermon or homily: five-minute radio sermonettes.
- servomotor — a motor or the like forming part of a servomechanism.
- short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
- short ream — 480 sheets of paper