10-letter words containing i, r, u, p
- perquisite — an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages: Among the president's perquisites were free use of a company car and paid membership in a country club.
- perruquier — a person who creates, styles, or sells perukes or hair-pieces
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- petit jury — petty jury.
- 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.
- pickup arm — tone arm.
- 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.
- picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pirouetter — someone who performs pirouettes
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- 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
- pluriaxial — having several axes; specif., having flowers on secondary shoots
- poculiform — having the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- poliovirus — any of three picornaviruses of the genus Enterovirus, having a spherical capsid, infectious to humans and the cause of poliomyelitis.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- pot liquor — Midland and Southern U.S. the broth in which meat or vegetables, as salt pork or greens, have been cooked.
- pour it on — to flatter profusely
- pour point — the lowest temperature at which a substance will flow under given conditions.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- praemunire — a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown.
- 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.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
- 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.
- 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.
- precursive — 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.