10-letter words containing as
- of fashion — of high social standing
- off season — a time of year other than the regular or busiest one for a specific activity: Fares are lower in the off-season.
- off-season — a time of year other than the regular or busiest one for a specific activity: Fares are lower in the off-season.
- ogden nash — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- oireachtas — the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, consisting of the president, the Dail Eireann, and the Seanad Eireann.
- old master — an eminent artist of an earlier period, especially from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
- old-siwash — a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded by old): students from old Siwash.
- oligoclase — a kind of plagioclase feldspar occurring commonly in white crystals, sometimes shaded with gray, green, or red.
- onomastics — the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.
- opal glass — a translucent or opaque glass, usually of a milky white hue.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- orchestras — Plural form of orchestra.
- orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- osteoblast — a bone-forming cell.
- osteoclast — Cell Biology. one of the large multinuclear cells in growing bone concerned with the absorption of osseous tissue, as in the formation of canals.
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- out-basket — out-box.
- outclassed — to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by a wide margin; be superior: He far outclasses the other runners in the race.
- outclasses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outclass.
- outgassing — to remove (adsorbed or occluded gases), usually by heat or reduced pressure.
- outlasting — Present participle of outlast.
- outmeasure — to measure out
- outpassion — to surpass in passion
- overassert — to assert too much or too strongly
- overassess — To assess too often.
- overcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of overcast.
- overmaster — to gain mastery over; conquer; overpower: The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- oxyuriasis — human infection with pinworms.
- paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
- paper wasp — any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance consisting of chewed plant material.
- paraphasia — a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- paraphrast — a person who paraphrases.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
- parasitism — Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- parastatal — working with the government in an unofficial capacity.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- pari passu — with equal pace or progress; side by side.
- parnassian — pertaining to Mount Parnassus.
- pas marche — a marching step.
- pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.