10-letter words containing a, n, u, r
- perineural — located around a nerve or bunch of nerves; surrounding a nerve
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
- playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- 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.
- 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.
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- prefuneral — the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- premundane — before the creation of the world; antemundane.
- prenatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- prenuclear — of or relating to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.
- prenuptial — before marriage.
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- procurance — the act of bringing about or getting something; agency; procurement.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- punch card — punched card
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- punctuator — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.
- purchasing — buying
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- puritanize — to (cause to) behave like a puritan
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- purtenance — the liver, heart, and lungs of an animal.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- quadrangle — a plane figure having four angles and four sides, as a square.
- quadrantal — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quadrantic — Of, pertaining to, or affecting a quadrant.
- quadrantid — any member of a meteor shower occurring annually around January 3 and appearing to radiate from a point in the constellation Boötes
- quadrating — Present participle of quadrate.
- quadrennia — Plural form of quadrennium.
- 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
- quadrumane — a quadrumanous animal, as a monkey.
- quaker gun — a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
- 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.
- quarkonium — a meson composed of a quark and an antiquark of the same flavor.