10-letter words containing u, p, s, e, t
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- 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.
- perquisite — an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages: Among the president's perquisites were free use of a company car and paid membership in a country club.
- persecuted — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutee — a person who is subjected to persecution
- persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- pest house — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
- petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- 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.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- 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.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- prerequest — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- press stud — snap fastener.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- 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.
- propertius — Sextus [seks-tuh s] /ˈsɛks təs/ (Show IPA), c50–c15 b.c, Roman poet.
- 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.
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- prostitute — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- 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.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- prudentius — Aurelius Clemens (ɔːˈriːlɪəs ˈklɛmɛnz). 348–410 ad, Latin Christian poet, born in Spain. His works include the allegory Psychomachia
- psalterium — the omasum.
- 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.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- pseudosuit — /soo'doh-s[y]oot"/ A suit wannabee; a hacker who has decided that he wants to be in management or administration and begins wearing ties, sport coats, and (shudder!) suits voluntarily. It's his funeral. See also lobotomy.
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- puff paste — a rich dough for making puff pastry.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- pulse rate — the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pultaceous — resembling pap