10-letter words containing p, o, e, r, i
- preportion — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
- prepositor — praepostor.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- primogenit — the eldest child in a family
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princehood — the office or rank of a prince
- prioritise — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- prioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- prizewoman — a female prize winner
- pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- pro-choice — supporting or advocating legalized abortion.
- pro-soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- proairesis — the power of considered decision-making
- probenecid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 1 3 H 1 9 NO 4 S, used chiefly in the treatment of gout.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- proceeding — proceeds. something that results or accrues. the total amount derived from a sale or other transaction: The proceeds from the deal were divided equally among us. the profits or returns from a sale, investment, etc.
- procercoid — an elongate larval stage of some tapeworms that usually develops in the body of a freshwater copepod.
- process id — process identifier
- 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.
- processive — advancing or going forward; progressive: the processive quality of language.
- procidence — a prolapse
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proctorize — to exercise the power of a proctor over
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- 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.
- proffering — to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- progenitor — a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.
- prohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.