10-letter words containing p, a, t, i
- 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).
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pianistics — (used with a singular verb) the art or practice of playing the piano.
- piano duet — a musical composition for two pianists playing two pianos or together at one piano.
- piano trio — an instrumental ensemble consisting of a piano, a violin, and a cello
- pianoforte — a piano.
- piatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pick apart — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- picketboat — a boat which keeps guard
- pictograph — pictogram
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piece rate — compensation based on a worker's quantitative output or production, usually an agreed sum per article of work turned out.
- pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pileolated — pileated.
- pilot boat — a boat carrying pilots to or from large ships.
- pilot flag — the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
- pilot lamp — an electric lamp, used in association with a control, which by means of position or color indicates the functioning of the control; an indicator light or a control light.
- pilot tape — Television. pilot (def 9).
- pin-tailed — having a tapered tail with long, pointed central feathers.
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pinnatifid — (of a leaf) pinnately cleft, with clefts reaching halfway or more to the midrib.
- pinnatiped — having lobate feet.
- pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S.
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pit sawing — a method of sawing logs or timbers, as into boards, in which the piece to be cut is laid horizontally across a pit and cut by a saw operated vertically by two people, one above and one in the pit below the piece.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- pity party — indulgence in self-pity
- pityriasis — Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.
- pixelating — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixelation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixellated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixilation — the state or quality of being pixilated.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plain knit — the simplest knitted construction, consisting of vertical ribs visible on the front of the fabric and horizontal rows of stitches visible on the back, used in the production of hosiery and jersey fabrics.
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plain text — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plainchant — plainsong (defs 1, 2).
- plaintless — without complaint