10-letter words containing p, a, t, i
- constipate — to cause constipation in
- cooptation — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- cooptative — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- crepitated — Simple past tense and past participle of crepitate.
- crepitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crepitate.
- crispation — the act of curling or state of being curled
- crispature — the state of being crisped or crispate
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- curtain-up — the moment when the curtain is raised and a play or similar show begins
- cuspidated — Alternative form of cuspidate.
- cytopathic — of or relating to cytopathy
- d particle — D meson.
- data point — a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.
- datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
- dead point — dead center
- deaspirate — to remove any audible breath sound from (a sound)
- decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
- delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
- deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)
- depantsing — to remove the trousers from, as a joke or punishment.
- depeditate — /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with "decapitate"] Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders. Such letters are said to have been depeditated.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- depositary — a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation
- depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
- depurating — Present participle of depurate.
- depuration — The action or process of freeing something of impurities.
- depurative — used for or capable of depurating; purifying; purgative
- deputation — A deputation is a small group of people who have been asked to speak to someone on behalf of a larger group of people, especially in order to make a complaint.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
- dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
- dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
- dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diphtheria — a febrile, infectious disease caused by the bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and characterized by the formation of a false membrane in the air passages, especially the throat.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
- discrepant — (usually of two or more objects, accounts, findings etc.) differing; disagreeing; inconsistent: discrepant accounts.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- disparates — unlike things or people
- disparting — Present participle of dispart.