10-letter words containing a, s, e, t, r, i
- ostranenie — defamiliarization.
- overstrain — to exert, tax, or use (resources) to an excessive extent
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- 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.
- 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.
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
- 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).
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- 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.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- rabbitries — Plural form of rabbitry.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- ratio test — the theorem that a given infinite series converges if the absolute value of the ratio of the term succeeding the n th term to the n th term approaches a limit less than 1 as n increases without bound.
- ravishment — rapture or ecstasy.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism