10-letter words containing o, i, l, p, r
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- prenominal — being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- proglottid — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- prolixious — (of speech, music, writing) long-winded; drawn out
- prolog-iii — A. Colmerauer, U Aix-Marseille, ca 1984. Marseille Prolog, with unification replaced by constraint resolution. [deferred goals too?] (Not to be confused with Prolog 3, a commercial product?) Version 1.2 for MS-DOS.
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- propelling — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- propulsion — the act or process of propelling.
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- prosilient — prominent
- protocolic — relating to protocol
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- prowlingly — in the manner of a prowl
- proximally — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.