10-letter words containing p, a, s, e, r, t
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- inseparate — (obsolete) Not separate; together; united.
- interphase — the period of the cell cycle during which the nucleus is not undergoing division, typically occurring between mitotic or meiotic divisions. Also called interkinesis. Compare G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- interspace — a space between things.
- intraphase — (chemistry, physics) Within a phase.
- jasperated — Containing particles of jasper, mixed with jasper.
- jumpmaster — a person who supervises the jumping of paratroopers or other parachutists.
- karyotypes — Plural form of karyotype.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- most-asper — harsh; rough.
- mousetraps — Plural form of mousetrap.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pacesetter — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pantheress — a female panther
- parameters — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
- pass water — to urinate
- passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
- pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
- 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.