10-letter words containing a, n, t, e, p
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonseptate — not having a septum
- north cape — a point of land on an island at the N tip of Norway: the northernmost point of Europe.
- not a hope — used ironically to express little confidence that expectations will be fulfilled
- note-paper — writing paper, especially that used in writing notes or personal correspondence and usually less than 8½ × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm) in size.
- ocean pout — an eelpout, Macrozoarces americanus, common along the northeastern coast of North America.
- on a plate — in such a way as to be acquired without further trouble
- on the pad — a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- opiniative — Archaic form of opinionative.
- opinionate — (transitive, intransitive) To have or express as an opinion; to opine.
- optionable — the power or right of choosing.
- orange-tip — a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae
- orthopnoea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outpatient — a patient who receives treatment at a hospital, as in an emergency room or clinic, but is not hospitalized.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palliament — a long robe
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pancreato- — pancreas
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- pandurated — fiddle-shaped
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- pantheress — a female panther
- pantherine — resembling a panther in manner or appearance
- pantomimed — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera
- pantothere — any animal of the extinct order Pantotheria that lived during the late Mesozoic Era, believed to be the ancestor of the marsupial and placental mammals.
- pantsuited — wearing a pantsuit
- panzerotto — a baked turnover with a folded, sealed pocket containing tomato, cheese, and sometimes other fillings
- paper-thin — extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
- papiamento — a creolized language based on Spanish and spoken on Curaçao.
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis