10-letter words containing a, p, t, e, r, i
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- 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
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rapidwrite — (language, tool) A method for translating set of abbreviations into the much more verbose COBOL code.
- rapier wit — ability to deliver witty and cutting remarks
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- re-baptize — to baptize (someone) again
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- repaginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repair kit — a set of items, instructions, etc designed to assist with the repair of a specific thing
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- reparative — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- repatriate — to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship.
- replanting — to plant again.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- respirator — a masklike device, usually of gauze, worn over the mouth, or nose and mouth, to prevent the inhalation of noxious substances or the like.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- separatist — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- separative — tending to separate.
- separatrix — something that divides or separates, as the line between light and dark areas on a partially illuminated surface.
- sexpartite — divided into or consisting of six parts.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- spare time — leisure hours
- spare tire — a tire used or kept available as an emergency replacement on a vehicle.
- sparkliest — tending to sparkle; animated; lively: a row of sparkly cheerleaders.
- spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.