10-letter words containing e, a, r, l, i
- perineural — located around a nerve or bunch of nerves; surrounding a nerve
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- peripheral — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
- peripteral — (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- permillage — a rate or proportion per thousand. Compare percentage (def 1).
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- 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.
- pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
- pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pileorhiza — a calyptra
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- pilgrimage — a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- pillarless — having no pillars or upright structural supports
- pipe-layer — a worker employed in laying a pipeline or one experienced in such work.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarize — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plane iron — the blade of a plane.
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- 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 rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- police car — squad car.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- praiseless — not receiving praise; unpraised
- 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.
- prattville — a town in central Alabama.
- praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
- predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
- preexilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.