10-letter words containing p, i, t, r
- appreciate — If you appreciate something, for example a piece of music or good food, you like it because you recognize its good qualities.
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- apprentise — Obsolete form of apprentice.
- appretiate — Archaic form of appreciate.
- aprication — the act of sunbathing or basking in the sun
- apterygial — (of eels, certain insects, etc) lacking such paired limbs as wings or fins
- archetypic — Archetypical.
- archpriest — (formerly) a chief assistant to a bishop, performing many of his sacerdotal functions during his absence
- arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
- arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
- aristippus — ?435–?356 bc, Greek philosopher, who believed pleasure to be the highest good and founded the Cyrenaic school
- aristotype — a process of photographic printing in which paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin is used.
- armipotent — strong in arms or war
- arpeggiate — to play an arpeggio
- ascription — the act of ascribing
- ascriptive — having the ability to be attributable to
- asperating — to make rough, harsh, or uneven: a voice asperated by violent emotion.
- asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
- asperities — Plural form of asperity.
- aspidistra — any Asian plant of the liliaceous genus Aspidistra, esp A. lurida, a popular house plant with long tough evergreen leaves and purplish flowers borne on the ground
- aspirating — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- aspirators — Plural form of aspirator.
- aspiratory — of or suited for breathing or suction
- aspirinate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of aspirin.
- at a price — If you can buy something that you want at a price, it is for sale, but it is extremely expensive.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- authorship — The authorship of a piece of writing is the identity of the person who wrote it.
- autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
- b particle — B meson.
- baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
- barotropic — having a density that is a function only of pressure.
- barrow pit — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- biparental — from two parents
- biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
- bipartisan — Bipartisan means concerning or involving two different political parties or groups.
- bipolarity — having two poles, as the earth.
- birth pill — a pill which prevents a woman from conceiving
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
- borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
- breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
- bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)