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10-letter words containing c, u, r, s, e, p

  • pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
  • persecuted — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • persecutee — a person who is subjected to persecution
  • persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
  • picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
  • picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
  • precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • preciouses — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preclosure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
  • preclusive — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
  • precocious — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • preconsume — to consume in advance
  • precursive — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
  • precursors — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
  • precursory — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • prediscuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • prejudices — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
  • procellous — stormy, as the sea.
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
  • procrustes — a robber who stretched or amputated the limbs of travelers to make them conform to the length of his bed. He was killed by Theseus.
  • pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
  • proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
  • prosecutor — Law. prosecuting attorney. a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
  • prospectus — a document describing the major features of a proposed literary work, project, business venture, etc., in enough detail so that prospective investors, participants, or buyers may evaluate it: Don't buy the new stock offering until you read the prospectus carefully.
  • pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • putrescent — becoming putrid; undergoing putrefaction.
  • putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • red spruce — a spruce, Picea rubens, of eastern North America, having reddish-brown bark and cones and yielding a light, soft wood used for pulp, in the construction of boxes, etc.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • respectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
  • schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
  • screwed up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • scrub pine — any of several pines, as the jack pine, characterized by a scrubby or irregular manner of growth, usually found in dry, sandy soil.
  • sculptress — a woman who practices the art of sculpture.
  • sculptured — having a surface or shape molded, marked, carved, indented, etc., by or as if by sculpture: sculptured leather belts.
  • scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
  • spermaduct — a spermatic passage found in male animals
  • subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
  • subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
  • subprefect — an administrator junior to a prefect or chief official
  • subprocess — a process that is part of a larger process
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