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10-letter words containing p, r, a, e

  • parkleaves — a species of St John's wort
  • parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
  • parmenides — flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.
  • parmentier — (of food) prepared or served with potatoes: potage Parmentier.
  • parnellite — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
  • paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
  • paroxetine — a drug, C 19 H 20 FNO 3 ·HCl, of the SSRI class, that acts by prolonging the action of serotonin in the brain, used in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders.
  • paroxytone — having an acute accent on the next to the last syllable.
  • parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • part owner — a person who shares in the ownership of something
  • part-score — a contract to make less than the number of tricks required for game: to bid a part-score of three diamonds.
  • part-timer — a person who works, attends school, etc., less than full time.
  • parthenope — a siren, who drowned herself when Odysseus evaded the lure of the sirens' singing. Her body was said to have been cast ashore at what became Naples
  • partialize — to bias.
  • participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
  • partnering — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
  • parturient — bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  • party game — a game played at a party, esp at a children's party
  • party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
  • party time — the season for parties
  • party-goer — A party-goer is someone who likes going to parties or someone who is at a particular party.
  • pas marche — a marching step.
  • pasargadae — an ancient ruined city in S Iran, NE of Persepolis: an early capital of ancient Persia; tomb of Cyrus the Great.
  • pass water — to urinate
  • passerby's — a person passing by.
  • passerbyes — a person passing by.
  • passimeter — a turnstile attached to a ticket booth or ticket machine
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • pasteboard — a stiff, firm board made of sheets of paper pasted or layers of paper pulp pressed together.
  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
  • pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
  • paternally — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
  • pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • patisserie — a shop where pastry, especially French pastry, is made and sold.
  • patna rice — a variety of long-grain rice, used for savoury dishes
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
  • patriciate — the patrician class.
  • patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronizer — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
  • patterning — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
  • pawnbroker — a person whose business is lending money at interest on personal, movable property deposited with the lender until redeemed.
  • pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
  • pea souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • pea-souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
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