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10-letter words containing p, a, r, u, e, s

  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
  • pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • pea souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • pea-souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
  • peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
  • percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
  • perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
  • persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • 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.
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • 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
  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
  • precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • predacious — predatory; rapacious.
  • premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
  • presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • psalterium — the omasum.
  • pseudocarp — accessory fruit.
  • pulse rate — the rate of the pulse: stated in pulsations per minute.
  • puntarenas — a seaport in W Costa Rica.
  • purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
  • purse crab — coconut crab.
  • quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
  • quadrupeds — Plural form of quadruped.
  • quadruples — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadruple.
  • rampageous — violent; unruly; boisterous.
  • rampasture — a large attic room.
  • repoussage — the art or process of working in repoussé.
  • repurchase — to buy again; regain by purchase.
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • sepultural — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
  • sharpen up — hone, refine
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