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10-letter words containing a, p, e, r, i

  • preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
  • primaveral — of, in, or pertaining to the early springtime: primaveral longings to sail around the world.
  • prime rate — the minimum interest rate charged by a commercial bank on short-term business loans to large, best-rated customers or corporations.
  • primevally — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
  • principate — supreme power or office.
  • printanier — (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.
  • printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
  • privatized — (of the production of goods or services) transferred from the public sector of an economy into private ownership and operation
  • privatizer — a person who promotes or facilitates privatization (of publicly owned businesses or services)
  • privy seal — (in Great Britain) the seal affixed to grants, documents, etc., that are to pass the great seal, and to documents of less importance that do not require the great seal.
  • prize draw — raffle in which sth is won
  • prize flag — a flag hoisted by a yacht upon learning that it has won a prize in a race.
  • prizewoman — a female prize winner
  • 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.
  • proairesis — the power of considered decision-making
  • proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
  • profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • propionate — an ester or salt of propionic acid.
  • propitiate — to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
  • proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
  • proserpina — Persephone.
  • proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
  • proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
  • protogenia — the first woman born after the great flood of Zeus, daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
  • proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
  • prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • psalterian — psalm-like
  • 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
  • pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
  • pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
  • quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
  • radiopager — a small radio receiver fitted with a buzzer to alert a person to telephone their home, office, etc, to receive a message
  • radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • radiophare — a radiotelegraphic station used by vessels to determine their positions; radio beacon.
  • radiophone — a radiotelephone.
  • radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
  • rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
  • rangership — the office or position of a ranger
  • rapid-fire — characterized by, delivered, or occurring in rapid succession: rapid-fire questions; rapid-fire events.
  • rapidwrite — (language, tool)   A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
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