10-letter words containing a, p, r, i, c
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piece rate — compensation based on a worker's quantitative output or production, usually an agreed sum per article of work turned out.
- pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
- piracicaba — a city in SE Brazil, NW of São Paulo.
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- police car — squad car.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practician — a practitioner or practiser of any profession, skill, or art
- practicing — actively working at a profession, especially medicine or law.
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pragmatics — pragmatic sanction.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- pre-advice — an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc.: I shall act on your advice.
- pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
- 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.
- preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
- preceramic — noting or pertaining to a period or culture antedating the use of ceramics or pottery.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
- predicated — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- prelexical — denoting or applicable at a stage in the formation of a sentence at which words and phrases have not yet replaced all of the underlying grammatical and semantic material of that sentence in the speaker's mind
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- priapismic — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- principate — supreme power or office.
- principial — original, elementary
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
- 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.
- procacious — insolent
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.