10-letter words containing a, e, r, i, u
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- praemunire — a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown.
- praetorium — (in Roman history) the headquarters or residence of a Roman official, governor or military commander
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- 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.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- prenuptial — before marriage.
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- puritanize — to (cause to) behave like a puritan
- quadrennia — Plural form of quadrennium.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadricone — a quadric surface swept out by a straight line that passes through a fixed point such that no straight line can intersect it at more than two points
- quadriller — a person who dances quadrilles
- quadrilles — Plural form of quadrille.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadrireme — (in classical antiquity) a galley having four banks of oars.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quadroxide — (chemistry) A tetroxide.
- qualifiers — Plural form of qualifier.
- quandaries — Plural form of quandary.
- quantifier — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quarantine — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- quarreling — an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
- quarriable — Capable of being quarried.
- quartering — one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is or may be divided: a quarter of an apple; a quarter of a book.
- quasi-free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- quasiorder — (set theory) A preorder.
- quaternion — a group or set of four persons or things.
- quaternity — a group or set of four.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- quickwater — the part of a river or other stream having a strong current.
- quinacrine — an alkaloid, C 2 3 H 3 0 ClN 3 O, similar in its properties to pamaquine, used in the treatment of malaria.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- race music — blues-based music or jazz by and for African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, when it was regarded as a distinctive, separate market by the music industry; early jazz or rhythm-and-blues.
- radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.