10-letter words containing p, e, t, i
- pilot tape — Television. pilot (def 9).
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pin-tailed — having a tapered tail with long, pointed central feathers.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pinguitude — fatness
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pinnatiped — having lobate feet.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- pint-sized — If you describe someone or something as pint-sized, you think they are smaller than is normal or smaller than they should be.
- pinto bean — a variety of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, having mottled or spotted seeds: grown chiefly in the southern U.S.
- pipex ltd. — UUNET PIPEX
- pirouetter — someone who performs pirouettes
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pistillode — a sterile pistil, or one with a simple structure and reduced size and function
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
- pitch cone — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pitch line — pitch circle.
- pitch pine — any of several pines from which pitch or turpentine is obtained.
- pitch pipe — a small flute or reed pipe producing one or more pitches when blown into, used chiefly for establishing the proper pitch in singing or in tuning a musical instrument.
- pitch-pipe — a small flute or reed pipe producing one or more pitches when blown into, used chiefly for establishing the proper pitch in singing or in tuning a musical instrument.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
- pitilessly — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- pitot tube — (often lowercase) an instrument for measuring fluid velocity, consisting of a narrow tube, one end of which is open and faces upstream, the other end being connected to a manometer.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- pixelating — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixelation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixellated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- plain text — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plaintless — without complaint
- planetical — planetary
- planetlike — resembling a planet or planets
- planetwide — relating to or affecting a whole planet
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- plate rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
- plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platinated — to platinize.
- plebiscite — a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.