10-letter words containing n, a, p, r
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- puritanize — to (cause to) behave like a puritan
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- purtenance — the liver, heart, and lungs of an animal.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- pyracantha — firethorn.
- pyramidion — a miniature pyramid, as at the apex of an obelisk.
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
- pyrazolone — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing the pyrazoline ring in which one carbon atom is doubly linked to an oxygen atom not in the ring.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
- radiophone — a radiotelephone.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rampallian — a scoundrel, wretch, rascal
- range pole — a conspicuously painted pole held upright to show the position of a survey mark.
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- rat poison — substance toxic to rodents
- rawalpindi — a city in N Pakistan: former provisional capital.
- re-explain — to explain again or in a different way
- re-planned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- read up on — If you read up on a subject, you read a lot about it so that you become informed about it.
- readoption — the adoption of something or someone again
- renography — x-ray examination of the kidney following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- rent party — (especially during the Great Depression) a party with music and dancing, given to raise money for the host's rent by collecting a contribution from each guest.
- repaginate — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- repair man — mechanic: male who fixes appliances
- repapering — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
- repellance — the act of repelling; a repellent quality or trait, repellence
- repentance — deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reprobance — reprobation.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repugnance — the state of being repugnant.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- respectant — aspectant.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- revampment — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rhinophyma — a red-coloured bump or bumps on the nose which form as a result of enlarged sebaceous glands and rosacea
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
- rhodophane — the red colour found in the inner cones of the retina in animals