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

  • portabella — a very large, rich-flavored cremini mushroom, often grilled, broiled, or sautéed.
  • portamento — a passing or gliding from one pitch or tone to another with a smooth progression.
  • portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
  • portmapper — (networking)   A server that converts TCP/IP protocol port numbers into RPC program numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. When an RPC server starts, it tells portmap the port number it is listening on and what RPC program numbers it serves. Before a client can call a given RPC program number, it must contacts portmap on the server machine to determine the port number to which RPC packets should be sent.
  • postarrest — following an arrest, occurring after someone has been arrested
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
  • potentiary — a person with power or authority
  • powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • 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.
  • praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
  • 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
  • pratfallen — having fallen upon one's buttocks
  • 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.
  • prattlebox — a person who prattles, a chatterbox
  • prattville — a town in central Alabama.
  • praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
  • prayer mat — mat for kneeling on to pray
  • pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • pre-easter — an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
  • pre-format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • preachment — the act of preaching.
  • 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
  • precontact — prior contact
  • predentate — of an infant whose teeth have not yet developed; occurring during or pertaining to this period of development
  • 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
  • prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
  • pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
  • preharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • premarital — preceding marriage.
  • prenatally — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
  • prenatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
  • prenuptial — before marriage.
  • preparator — a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.
  • prepayment — paying for sth in advance
  • presential — present, or implying actual presence
  • prestamped — stamped in advance
  • prestation — a payment in money or in services.
  • presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
  • prestorage — occurring before storage
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