10-letter words containing t, u, m, o
- osmeterium — a glandular process on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that emits a noxious odor to ward off predators.
- out-scheme — a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
- outcompete — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- outmanning — Present participle of outman.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outmatched — to be superior to; surpass; outdo: The home team seems to have been completely outmatched by the visitors.
- outmatches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmatch.
- outmeasure — to measure out
- outmigrant — A person who has migrated from one place to another, especially within a country.
- outmodedly — In an outmoded manner.
- outnumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outnumber.
- outperform — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- overmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- perdu-mont — Mont [mawn] /mɔ̃/ (Show IPA). French name of Monte Perdido.
- 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.
- peritoneum — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- petrolatum — a translucent gelatinous substance obtained from petroleum; used as a lubricant and in medicine as an ointment base and protective dressing
- photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
- pleurotomy — surgical incision into the pleura, esp to drain fluid, as in pleurisy
- plume moth — one of a family (Pterophoridae) of slender-bodied micro moths with narrow wings, each usually divided into two, three, or four "plumes". The type is the white Pterophorus pentadactylus
- polytomous — the act or process of dividing into more than three parts.
- poor mouth — unjustified complaining, esp to excite sympathy
- poor-mouth — to lament or argue that one is too poor; plead poverty.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postulatum — a postulate
- pottymouth — a person who habitually uses foul language
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- praetorium — (in Roman history) the headquarters or residence of a Roman official, governor or military commander
- precompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- proctodeum — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- 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.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- promptuary — a storehouse
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- prostomium — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the head of certain lower invertebrates.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- quantasome — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.