10-letter words containing a, l, i, p
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- proximally — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- public act — public law (def 1).
- public bar — (in a tavern or pub) the common section of a bar or barroom, not as exclusive, as quiet, or as comfortably furnished as the saloon section.
- public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
- 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".
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- radial-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running radially to enable the sidewalls to be flexible
- radio play — a play written for broadcasting on radio
- rampallian — a scoundrel, wretch, rascal
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- re-explain — to explain again or in a different way
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- repairable — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- repolarize — to polarize again or become polarized again
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- respirable — capable of being respired.
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface