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10-letter words containing u, p, s, t, a, i

  • pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
  • part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
  • pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
  • pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
  • plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
  • plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
  • pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
  • pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
  • saint pius — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
  • spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
  • spirituals — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
  • stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
  • subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
  • suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
  • suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • supplicant — supplicating.
  • supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
  • supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
  • tamaulipas — a state in NE Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. 30,731 sq. mi. (79,595 sq. km). Capital: Ciudad Victoria.
  • tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
  • uniseptate — Biology. having only one septum or partition, as a silicle.
  • up against — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
  • upstanding — upright; honorable; straightforward.
  • usucapient — (of property) in possession of: occupying
  • usurpation — an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
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