10-letter words containing s, u, p, o, e
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- 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.
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- pole house — a timber house built on a steep section and supported by heavy debarked logs in long piles
- polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
- polygenous — polygenetic
- polymerous — Biology. composed of many parts.
- polyphemus — a Cyclops who was blinded by Odysseus.
- polysemous — a condition in which a single word, phrase, or concept has more than one meaning or connotation.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- pompelmous — pomelo.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- porousness — full of pores.
- porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- post house — a house or inn keeping post horses.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- preciouses — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preclosure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precocious — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- precursors — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- precursory — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- presuppose — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- procellous — stormy, as the sea.
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
- procrustes — a robber who stretched or amputated the limbs of travelers to make them conform to the length of his bed. He was killed by Theseus.
- 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.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- propertius — Sextus [seks-tuh s] /ˈsɛks təs/ (Show IPA), c50–c15 b.c, Roman poet.
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- prosecutor — Law. prosecuting attorney. a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
- prospectus — a document describing the major features of a proposed literary work, project, business venture, etc., in enough detail so that prospective investors, participants, or buyers may evaluate it: Don't buy the new stock offering until you read the prospectus carefully.
- prosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.