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10-letter words containing p, e, l, i, t

  • participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
  • party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
  • pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
  • peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
  • pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
  • 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.
  • pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
  • pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
  • pelletised — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
  • pelletizer — a machine for making pellets
  • pelvimeter — an instrument used to measure the pelvis
  • pelvimetry — measurement of the diameters of the female pelvis, especially the birth canal.
  • penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
  • penitently — feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
  • penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
  • pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
  • pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
  • pentelikon — Pendelikon.
  • peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • percentile — one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies: Ninety percent of the values lie at or below the ninetieth percentile, ten percent above it.
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • peridental — periodontal.
  • perimetral — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • peripteral — (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.
  • peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • perplexity — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
  • pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich [German yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh] /German ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer.
  • pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
  • petrópolis — a city in SE Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro: resort. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)
  • philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
  • philistine — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
  • phlebolite — a small mass or solid deposit of calcium that forms in a vein
  • phlebolith — valueless rock or mineral matter occurring in a vein; gangue.
  • phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
  • phlogopite — a magnesium-rich mica mineral, usually yellowish-brown, but sometimes reddish-brown.
  • phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • 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.
  • pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
  • pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
  • pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
  • pile it on — to exaggerate
  • pileolated — pileated.
  • pilot cell — one cell in a battery selected and tested to determine the charge or discharge current for the entire battery.
  • pilot tape — Television. pilot (def 9).
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