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

  • pool train — a train operating over a track owned by two or more railway companies.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
  • pornotopia — a fantasy state or place in which everyone is willing to indulge in sexual activity, esp the setting for pornographic literature
  • port blair — a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.
  • port royal — a village in S South Carolina, on Port Royal island: colonized by French Huguenots 1562.
  • port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
  • port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
  • portabella — a very large, rich-flavored cremini mushroom, often grilled, broiled, or sautéed.
  • portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
  • 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.
  • portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
  • 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.
  • postmortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
  • postocular — located behind the eye
  • postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
  • postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
  • potentiary — a person with power or authority
  • poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
  • 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.
  • preappoint — to appoint beforehand.
  • precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
  • precontact — prior contact
  • predicator — the verbal element of a clause or sentence.
  • prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
  • preparator — a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.
  • prestation — a payment in money or in services.
  • prestorage — occurring before storage
  • prismatoid — a polyhedron having its vertices lying on two parallel planes.
  • privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
  • pro patria — for one's country.
  • pro-acting — serving temporarily, especially as a substitute during another's absence; not permanent; temporary: the acting mayor.
  • pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • 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.
  • proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
  • procreator — to beget or generate (offspring).
  • proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
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