10-letter words containing p, a, y, t
- polydactyl — having many or several digits.
- polydontia — the condition of having more than the normal number of teeth.
- polygamist — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
- polyhalite — a type or pink or red mineral
- polymastia — the condition of having more than the normal number of breasts
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polystylar — relating to a polystyle
- polyvalent — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- port royal — a village in S South Carolina, on Port Royal island: colonized by French Huguenots 1562.
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- potability — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potamology — the study of rivers.
- potato yam — air potato.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pratyahara — the Yogic practice of turning the mind to introspection by voluntarily shutting out distractions provided by the senses.
- prayer mat — mat for kneeling on to pray
- prenatally — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prepayment — paying for sth in advance
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- promptuary — a storehouse
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- punctually — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- pyatigorsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, in Caucasia.
- pyracantha — firethorn.
- pyramidist — an expert in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyroborate — borax1 .
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyrrophyta — a phylum in the kingdom Protista comprising the dinoflagellates and cryptomonads.
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- rapid city — a city in SW South Dakota.
- rent party — (especially during the Great Depression) a party with music and dancing, given to raise money for the host's rent by collecting a contribution from each guest.
- reparatory — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- repeatedly — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- sally port — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.