10-letter words containing p, a, n, t
- pedodontia — the branch of dentistry dealing with the care and treatment of children's teeth.
- pejoration — depreciation; a lessening in worth, quality, etc.
- penetrable — capable of being penetrated.
- penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
- penetrance — the frequency, expressed as a percentage, with which a particular gene produces its effect in a group of organisms. Compare expressivity (def 2).
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- penetrator — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- penny ante — a game of poker in which the ante or limit is a very small amount, as one cent
- penny-ante — involving a trifling sum of money; small in amount: a penny-ante investment.
- pensionnat — a simple boarding house or small hotel in France
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentameter — a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapodic — (of a poetic line or verse) having five metrical feet
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentaquark — a subatomic particle consisting of four quarks and one antiquark
- pentaquine — a synthetic antimalarial drug, C18H27N3O, used chiefly in the form of its phosphate
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- pentastyle — having five columns.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different track and field events and won by the contestant gaining the highest total score.
- pentatomic — having five atoms in the molecule
- pentatonic — relating to any of several scales consisting of five notes, the most commonly encountered one being composed of the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth degrees of the major diatonic scale
- per contra — on the other hand; on the contrary.
- percentage — a rate or proportion per hundred.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- peridental — periodontal.
- peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- permeation — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- pernoctate — to stay all night
- peroration — a long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- pertaining — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
- pet parent — a person who looks after a pet animal
- peten-itza — Lake, a lake in N central Guatemala: nearby site of Mayan ruins. About 38 sq. mi. (98 sq. km).
- petnapping — the stealing of a pet, as for resale or ransom.
- petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petronella — a type of traditional country dance from Scotland
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.