10-letter words containing p, a, r, t, e
- tryptamine — a crystalline substance, C 10 H 12 N 2 , that is formed from tryptophan and is involved in various metabolic processes.
- tupperware — Tupperware is a range of plastic containers with tight-fitting lids that are used for storing food.
- unapparent — readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view; visible: The crack in the wall was readily apparent.
- uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- underpants — drawers or shorts worn under outer clothing, usually next to the skin.
- underplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
- unipartite — made as or consisting of only one part
- unoperated — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- unparental — not befitting a parent
- unparented — having no parent or parents
- unpastured — not used as pasture
- unpregnant — not pregnant; not carrying a fetus in the womb
- unprobated — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- unrepeated — not repeated, recited, or uttered again
- unseparate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- untampered — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
- untrampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- upgathered — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- verkrampte — (during apartheid) an Afrikaner Nationalist who opposed any changes toward liberal trends in government policy, esp relating to racial questions
- vituperate — to berate or rail (against) abusively; revile
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- voltampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- w particle — either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W + , W −.
- waitperson — a waiter or waitress.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- wastepaper — paper thrown away as useless.
- water jump — any small body of water that a horse must jump over, as in a steeplechase.
- water park — an amusement park featuring swimming pools, water slides, wave pools, fountains, or other attractions involving water.
- water pill — a diuretic pill.
- water pipe — a pipe for conveying water.
- water plug — a fireplug; hydrant.
- water polo — an aquatic game played by two teams of seven swimmers each, the object being to score goals by pushing, carrying, or passing an inflated ball and tossing it into the opponent's goal, defended by a goalkeeper.
- water trap — a pond, stream, or the like serving as a trap in a golf course.
- water-pipe — a pipe for conveying water.
- waterpower — Alternative form of water power.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- waterscape — a picture or view of the sea or other body of water.
- watersport — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- waterspout — Also called rainspout. a pipe running down the side of a house or other building to carry away water from the gutter of the roof.
- wentletrap — any of several marine gastropods of the family Epitonii (Scalariidae), having a whitish, spiraled shell.
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- whitepaper — Alternative spelling of white paper.
- wiretapped — Simple past tense and past participle of wiretap.
- wiretapper — a person who taps wires to learn the nature of messages passing over them.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zootherapy — the use of therapeutic drugs derived from animals
- zygopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Zygoptera, comprising the damselflies.