10-letter words containing p, o, r, t, y
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- plutolatry — the worship of wealth or material possessions
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- polyrhythm — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
- polystylar — relating to a polystyle
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- pony truss — a through bridge truss having its deck between the top and bottom chords and having no top lateral bracing.
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- port moody — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, E of Vancouver, on an inlet of the Strait of Georgia.
- port royal — a village in S South Carolina, on Port Royal island: colonized by French Huguenots 1562.
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- predictory — predictive.
- preemptory — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- pretty boy — if you describe a man as a pretty boy, you are suggesting he is not very manly and too interested in his appearance
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- promontory — a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- promptuary — a storehouse
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protervity — petulance
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- protophyte — a single-celled plant of the class Protophyta
- prototyper — An interface builder for the Macintosh from Smethers Barnes.
- prototypic — the original or model on which something is based or formed.