10-letter words containing s, u, l, a
- outlanders — Plural form of outlander.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outsailing — Present participle of outsail.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polygamous — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or practicing polygamy; polygamic.
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postocular — located behind the eye
- 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
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- prothallus — prothallium.