10-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- prudential — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- publishers — a publishing company
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulverized — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverizer — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- rappelling — (in mountaineering) the act or method of moving down a steep incline or past an overhang by means of a double rope secured above and placed around the body, usually under the left thigh and over the right shoulder, and paid out gradually in the descent.
- re-explain — to explain again or in a different way
- receptible — adapted to or suitable for reception.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- red-pencil — to delete, censor, correct, or abridge (written material) with or as if with a pencil having a red lead: His book was heavily red-penciled before it got clearance.
- relief map — a map showing the relief of an area, usually by generalized contour lines.
- repairable — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repiningly — in a repining manner, discontentedly
- replanning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- replanting — to plant again.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- replotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- reply-paid — having the cost of sending a reply (of a letter, etc) prepaid by the sender
- repolarize — to polarize again or become polarized again
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- respelling — to spell again or anew.
- respirable — capable of being respired.
- rhizoplane — the part of the root of a plant that is near the soil surface
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- ripidolite — a mineral of the chlorite group, essentially hydrated magnesium and aluminum silicate with some ferrous iron.
- ropinirole — a dopamine agonist used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
- sale price — discounted cost
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- self-pride — pride in one's abilities, status, possessions, etc.; self-esteem.
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.