10-letter words containing p, e, t, i
- nociceptor — A sensory receptor for painful stimuli.
- nonparties — Plural form of nonparty.
- nonpatient — One who is not a patient.
- nonprotein — not protein
- nonreceipt — Lack of receipt; failure to receive.
- nonsapient — Not sapient.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- omnipotent — almighty or infinite in power, as God.
- on deposit — payable as the first instalment, as when buying on hire-purchase
- on the hip — at a disadvantage
- open sight — (on a firearm) a rear sight consisting of a notch across which the gunner aligns the front sight on the target.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- ophiolater — a person who worships snakes
- opiniative — Archaic form of opinionative.
- opinionate — (transitive, intransitive) To have or express as an opinion; to opine.
- opisometer — an instrument used to measure curved lines on a map
- oppilative — obstructive; blocking
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- oppositive — Expressing contrariety.
- optatively — In an optative way.
- optionable — the power or right of choosing.
- optometric — Of or pertaining to optometry.
- orange-tip — a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae
- orthoepist — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthopedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- orthopneic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- osteopenia — Reduced bone mass of lesser severity than osteoporosis.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outpatient — a patient who receives treatment at a hospital, as in an emergency room or clinic, but is not hospitalized.
- outpointed — Simple past tense and past participle of outpoint.
- outpromise — to promise more than
- pacificate — to pacify.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- paintiness — the quality of being painty
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatalize — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- palliament — a long robe