10-letter words containing p, e, r, s, n, i
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- princesses — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- prissiness — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- propension — propensity.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- proseminar — a course conducted in the manner of a seminar for graduate students but often open to advanced undergraduates.
- proserpina — Persephone.
- proserpine — Also, Proserpina, Proserpine. Classical Mythology. a daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Pluto to be queen of Hades, but allowed to return to the surface of the earth for part of the year.
- prosilient — prominent
- prospering — to be successful or fortunate, especially in financial respects; thrive; flourish.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protension — duration
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
- prudentius — Aurelius Clemens (ɔːˈriːlɪəs ˈklɛmɛnz). 348–410 ad, Latin Christian poet, born in Spain. His works include the allegory Psychomachia
- psalterian — psalm-like
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- pyranoside — a glycoside containing a pyran ring structure.
- rain-swept — A rain-swept place is a place where it is raining heavily.
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- reimprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- reinspirit — to give a new spirit to; inspirit anew
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- reposition — the act of depositing or storing.
- repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- reprimands — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resorption — the destruction, disappearance, or dissolution of a tissue or part by biochemical activity, as the loss of bone or of tooth dentin.
- respecting — regarding; concerning.
- respelling — to spell again or anew.
- responsion — the act of responding or answering.
- responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rhinoscope — a special instrument used to examine the nasal passages
- rinderpest — an acute, usually fatal infectious disease of cattle, sheep, etc., caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus and characterized by high fever, diarrhea, and lesions of the skin and mucous membranes.
- ripsnorter — something or someone exceedingly strong or violent: a ripsnorter of a gale.