10-letter words that end in an
- philippian — a ruined city in NE Greece, in Macedonia: Octavian and Mark Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius here, 42 b.c.; the site of one of the first Christian churches in Europe, founded by St. Paul.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
- pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S.
- pipe organ — organ (def 1).
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- pogamoggan — a club with a knobbed head, used by various American Indian peoples.
- politician — a person who is active in party politics.
- polynesian — of or relating to Polynesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- pomeranian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Pomerania.
- port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- practician — a practitioner or practiser of any profession, skill, or art
- praetorian — of or relating to a praetor.
- preexilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- presswoman — a female reporter
- prison van — vehicle to transfer prisoners
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- pro-german — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- pro-indian — Also called American Indian, Amerind, Amerindian, Native American. a member of the aboriginal people of America or of any of the aboriginal North or South American stocks, usually excluding the Eskimos.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- quintilian — (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) a.d. c35–c95, Roman rhetorician.
- railwayman — male railway worker
- rampallian — a scoundrel, wretch, rascal
- ras dashan — the highest mountain in Ethiopia, in the N part. 15,158 feet (4623 meters).
- red indian — a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian.
- reed organ — a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
- repair man — mechanic: male who fixes appliances
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- rewriteman — a newspaper employee who writes articles from available information or who reworks the copy written by reporters.
- ritschlian — of or relating to the theology of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–89), who developed a liberal Christian theology and maintained that religious faith is based on value judgments.
- roberdsman — a robber
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rural dean — a cleric ranking just below an archdeacon, in charge of an archdeaconry.
- ruritanian — a mythical, romantic kingdom conceived as the setting for a fairy tale, costume drama, comic operetta, or the like.
- safety man — safety (def 6c).
- saint joan — a play (1923) by G. B. Shaw.
- saint-jean — French name of St. Johns.
- saleswoman — a woman who sells goods, services, etc.
- salientian — belonging or pertaining to the superorder Salientia, comprising the frogs and toads (order Anura) and extinct species.
- salpingian — a trumpet-shaped tube, as a Fallopian or Eustachian tube.
- salvadoran — of El Salvador or its people or culture
- san german — a city in SW Puerto Rico.
- sanitarian — sanitary; clean and wholesome.
- santa fean — a city in and the capital of New Mexico, in the N part: founded c1605.
- saramaccan — an English-based creole spoken in the interior of Suriname.
- saussurean — pertaining to or characteristic of the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, especially the view that a language consists of a network of interrelated elements in contrast.