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10-letter words that end in a

  • piwakawaka — a New Zealand fantail, Rhipidura Fuliginosa
  • plasmosoma — a nucleolus
  • plastilina — a non-drying, oil-based modeling material
  • pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
  • poinsettia — a plant, Euphorbia (Poinsettia) pulcherrima, of the spurge family, native to Mexico and Central America, having variously lobed leaves and brilliant scarlet, pink, or white petallike bracts.
  • polydipsia — excessive thirst.
  • polydontia — the condition of having more than the normal number of teeth.
  • polyhymnia — the Muse of sacred music and dance.
  • polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
  • polyphagia — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)
  • pornotopia — a fantasy state or place in which everyone is willing to indulge in sexual activity, esp the setting for pornographic literature
  • portabella — a very large, rich-flavored cremini mushroom, often grilled, broiled, or sautéed.
  • potentilla — any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers
  • power yoga — a form of yoga involving aerobic exercises and constant strenuous movement
  • pozzuolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
  • pranidhana — (in Mahayana Buddhism) the resolution not to enter nirvana until all beings are ready to enter.
  • pratyahara — the Yogic practice of turning the mind to introspection by voluntarily shutting out distractions provided by the senses.
  • premaxilla — one of a pair of bones of the upper jaw of vertebrates, situated in front of and between the maxillary bones.
  • presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
  • pro patria — for one's country.
  • proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
  • prodromata — signs or symptoms revealing the onset of a disease
  • propaganda — information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
  • prose edda — either of two old Icelandic literary works, one a collection of poems on mythical and religious subjects (or) erroneously attributed to Saemund Sigfusson (c1055–1133), the other a collection of ancient Scandinavian myths and legends, rules and theories of versification, poems, etc. (or) compiled and written in part by Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241).
  • proserpina — Persephone.
  • protanopia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to red or green.
  • protogenia — the first woman born after the great flood of Zeus, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
  • pull media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution were the bits of content have to be requested by the user, e.g. normal use of HTTP on the web. Opposite: "push media".
  • puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
  • push media — (messaging)   A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
  • put to sea — the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
  • pyracantha — firethorn.
  • pyrophobia — an abnormal fear of fire.
  • pyrrophyta — a phylum in the kingdom Protista comprising the dinoflagellates and cryptomonads.
  • quadratura — a wall or ceiling painted with columns and arches
  • quadrennia — Plural form of quadrennium.
  • quadripara — A female which has borne four offspring.
  • quathlamba — Drakensberg.
  • quesadilla — a tortilla folded over a filling of shredded cheese, onions, and chilies and broiled or fried.
  • quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
  • ras shamra — a locality in W Syria, near the Mediterranean Sea: site of ancient Ugarit; many archaeologically important objects dating to the Bronze Age.
  • raw sienna — a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
  • rea silvia — a vestal virgin who became the mother, by Mars, of Romulus and Remus.
  • redondilla — a Spanish verse form in which each stanza consists of four lines, each with eight syllables, and a rhyme scheme abba.
  • relic area — (in dialect geography) an area isolated from the influences of any focal area and preserving older linguistic forms that have been lost in other regions.
  • rhinolalia — a nasal tone to the voice which is caused by a defect in the nasal passages
  • rhinophyma — a red-coloured bump or bumps on the nose which form as a result of enlarged sebaceous glands and rosacea
  • rhinorrhea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
  • rhinotheca — the covering of the upper part of the beak in birds
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