10-letter words containing t, s, o, p, y
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polybasite — a blackish mineral, Ag 9 SbS 6 : a minor ore of silver.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polycystic — containing many cysts
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polygenist — a person who advocates polygenism
- polygnotus — fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.
- polygynist — a person who practices or favors polygyny.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polystylar — relating to a polystyle
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytocous — flowering multiple times during a lifetime
- polytomous — the act or process of dividing into more than three parts.
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- 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.
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- 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.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- sally port — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- scatoscopy — examination of the feces for diagnostic purposes.
- separatory — serving to separate.