10-letter words containing a, c, r, o, p
- pernoctate — to stay all night
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- pescadores — (used with a plural verb) Penghu.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- pharmacol. — pharmacology
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pictograph — pictogram
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- pockmarked — Usually, pockmarks. scars or pits left by a pustule in smallpox or the like.
- podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- police car — squad car.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- ponderance — weight or significance
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
- postocular — located behind the eye
- power pack — a device for converting the voltage from a power line or battery to the various voltages required by the components of an electronic circuit.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- precontact — prior contact
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procacious — insolent
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- procedural — procedural language
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- procreator — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.