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

  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • patisserie — a shop where pastry, especially French pastry, is made and sold.
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
  • pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
  • pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
  • pediatrics — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
  • pediatrist — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • 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.
  • percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
  • perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
  • periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
  • permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
  • personalty — personal estate or property.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • petrissage — a massage technique that uses firm pressure and works on specific muscles
  • petrostate — a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few
  • pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
  • phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
  • pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
  • pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
  • pine straw — fallen pine needles.
  • plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
  • playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
  • pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
  • poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
  • postarrest — following an arrest, occurring after someone has been arrested
  • postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
  • postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
  • practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
  • praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
  • praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
  • praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
  • pre-easter — an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
  • preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.
  • prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
  • preharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • presential — present, or implying actual presence
  • prestamped — stamped in advance
  • prestation — a payment in money or in services.
  • presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
  • prestorage — occurring before storage
  • propagates — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
  • prostrated — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
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