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

  • peroration — a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
  • pertaining — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
  • petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
  • phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
  • pianoforte — a piano.
  • 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.
  • pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
  • pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
  • pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
  • pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
  • pine straw — fallen pine needles.
  • pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
  • planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
  • plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
  • plate rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
  • pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
  • portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
  • potentiary — a person with power or authority
  • powertrain — (in a motorized vehicle) the whole mechanism by which power is generated and transmitted to the road, surrounding air, water, etc
  • practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
  • praetorian — of or relating to a praetor.
  • praetorium — (in Roman history) the headquarters or residence of a Roman official, governor or military commander
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • pragmatize — to act or view matters pragmatically
  • 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.
  • prattville — a town in central Alabama.
  • praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
  • pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • preadamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
  • preappoint — to appoint beforehand.
  • preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
  • precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
  • preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
  • 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
  • pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
  • premarital — preceding marriage.
  • prenuptial — before marriage.
  • presential — present, or implying actual presence
  • prestation — a payment in money or in services.
  • prime rate — the minimum interest rate charged by a commercial bank on short-term business loans to large, best-rated customers or corporations.
  • 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)
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