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

  • pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
  • paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
  • parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
  • parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
  • parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
  • parcelwise — bit by bit
  • parentless — a father or a mother.
  • parischane — a parish
  • parisienne — a girl or woman who is a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
  • parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
  • parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
  • paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
  • part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
  • pas marche — a marching step.
  • pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
  • pass water — to urinate
  • passerby's — a person passing by.
  • passerbyes — a person passing by.
  • passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
  • pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • patisserie — a shop where pastry, especially French pastry, is made and sold.
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
  • pea souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • pea-souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
  • pedernales — a river in central Texas, flowing E to the Colorado river. About 105 miles (169 km) long.
  • pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
  • pediatrics — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
  • pediatrist — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
  • peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
  • pensionary — a pensioner.
  • pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
  • percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
  • perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
  • periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
  • periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
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