10-letter words containing a, p, t, e, r, y
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- parentally — of or relating to a parent.
- paroxytone — having an acute accent on the next to the last syllable.
- party game — a game played at a party, esp at a children's party
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- party time — the season for parties
- party-goer — A party-goer is someone who likes going to parties or someone who is at a particular party.
- paternally — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- platelayer — a workman who lays and maintains railway track
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- prayer mat — mat for kneeling on to pray
- prenatally — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prepayment — paying for sth in advance
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- pyroborate — borax1 .
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- rent party — (especially during the Great Depression) a party with music and dancing, given to raise money for the host's rent by collecting a contribution from each guest.
- reparatory — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- separately — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- separatory — serving to separate.
- spare tyre — A spare tyre is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
- spycatcher — a person who works in counterintelligence to detect enemy espionage activities
- stay-press — (of fabric or clothing) treated so as to retain a freshly ironed look after washing.
- strathspey — a slow Scottish dance in quadruple meter.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- temporally — of or relating to time.
- temporalty — secular things
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- tryptamine — a crystalline substance, C 10 H 12 N 2 , that is formed from tryptophan and is involved in various metabolic processes.
- zootherapy — the use of therapeutic drugs derived from animals
- zygopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Zygoptera, comprising the damselflies.
- zythepsary — (rare) A brewery.