10-letter words containing u, s, e, i
- out sister — a member of a community of nuns who performs tasks in the outside world on behalf of the community
- outfitters — Plural form of outfitter.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- outriggers — Plural form of outrigger.
- outselling — Present participle of outsell.
- outsetting — the act of public proclamation
- outside in — another term for inside out
- outside of — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- outswinger — a ball that when bowled veers from leg side to off side.
- overinsure — to insure in excess of actual value
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- pasquinade — a satire or lampoon, especially one posted in a public place.
- 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.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pedicurist — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- percussive — of, relating to, or characterized by percussion.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- perigynous — situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
- perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perimysium — the connective tissue surrounding bundles of skeletal muscle fibers.
- 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.
- perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- 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.
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pine mouse — any of a widespread genus of voles, Pitymys, having small ears and a short tail; especially the American forest-dwelling mouse P. pinetorum.
- pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.