10-letter words containing u, p, o, n
- pozzuolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- production — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- profluence — abundance
- profounder — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profulgent — radiant
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- pronounced — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
- pronouncer — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- propounder — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
- propulsion — the act or process of propelling.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- protruding — to project.
- protrusion — the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
- pseudogene — a genelike section of DNA that has no apparent function
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pull up on — If someone pulls you up on something, they criticize you for something wrong that you have done.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- punctation — punctate condition or marking.
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- pundigrion — a pun
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- punto fijo — a city in NW Venezuela, on the Paraguana Peninsula.
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- push along — to go away
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- put in for — to request or apply for
- put option — put (def 24).
- pyrogenous — pyrogenic (def 2).
- queen post — either of a pair of timbers or posts extending vertically upward from the tie beam of a roof truss or the like, one on each side of the center.
- quoin post — the vertical post at the side of a lock gate, about which the gate swings
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.