10-letter words containing a, r, e, p, t
- pernoctate — to stay all night
- peroration — a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
- perpetrate — to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
- perpetuate — to make perpetual.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- pertaining — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
- pet parent — a person who looks after a pet animal
- petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
- petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
- petrograph — petroglyph.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- petrolatum — a translucent gelatinous substance obtained from petroleum; used as a lubricant and in medicine as an ointment base and protective dressing
- petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
- petronella — a type of traditional country dance from Scotland
- petrostate — a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- plane tree — any tree of the genus Platanus, especially P. occidentalis, the buttonwood or sycamore of North America, having palmately lobed leaves and bark that sheds.
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- planometer — surface plate.
- 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 mark — hallmark.
- plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
- plate rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
- platelayer — a workman who lays and maintains railway track
- platemaker — a machine that makes plates used for reproducing illustrations or printed matter, especially halftone or etched illustrations.
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- 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.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- pocket rat — kangaroo rat (sense 1)
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pontevedra — a port in NW Spain: takes its name from a 12-arched Roman bridge, the Pons Vetus. Pop: 77 993 (2003 est)