10-Letter Words Containing: P,L,O,T,I,N,U,S

• oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw

• small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island

• a solid silvery grey radioactive transuranic element whose atoms can be split when bombarded with neutrons; found in minute quantities in uranium ores but is usually synthesized in nuclear reactors; 13 isotopes are known with the most important being plutonium 239

• The supplying of something lacking.

• (grammar) The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”.

• (grammar) More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine.

• undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities

• the state of being polluted

• the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors

• (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

• a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity

• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart