10-letter words containing p, r, a, e
- open brace — left brace
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- open-carry — the practice of publicly carrying a gun or other weapon that is fully or partially visible.
- opera-goer — someone who attends operas
- operagoers — Plural form of operagoer.
- operagoing — Attending opera performances.
- operatable — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- operations — Plural form of operation.
- operatives — Plural form of operative.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- ophiolater — a person who worships snakes
- opotherapy — organotherapy.
- orange-tip — a European butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, having whitish wings with orange-tipped forewings: family Pieridae
- organ pipe — one of the pipes of a pipe organ.
- oropendola — any of several birds of the genus Gymnostinops, related to crows and feeding primarily on fruit and nectar, noted especially for their hanging nests.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- orthopnoea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- orthoptera — Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
- over-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- overexpand — to expand excessively
- overlapped — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overparted — (of a performer) having been cast in a role that is beyond his or her abilities
- overplaced — placed above
- overpraise — to praise excessively or unduly.
- overspread — to spread or diffuse over: A blush of embarrassment overspread his face.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pacesetter — a person, group, or organization that is the most progressive or successful and serves as a model to be imitated.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- padded bra — cushioned breast-support garment
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- page break — a mark in an electronic document that indicates where the printer will start a new page
- page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
- page proof — a trial proof printed from type that has been made up in page form, usually after galley corrections have been made, but before plates are made. Compare proof (def 12).
- page three — a feature found on the third page of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, consisting of a photograph of a female model with naked breasts
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- 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.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.