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10-letter words containing p, r, e, s, l

  • perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
  • perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
  • persepolis — an ancient capital of Persia: its imposing ruins are in S Iran, about 30 miles (48 km) NE of Shiraz.
  • persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
  • persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
  • personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
  • personably — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
  • personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
  • personally — through direct contact; in person; directly: I will thank him personally.
  • personalty — personal estate or property.
  • personnels — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • perversely — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
  • petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
  • petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
  • petrópolis — a city in SE Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro: resort. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • phraseless — lacking in a phrase or phrases
  • phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
  • pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
  • pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
  • pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
  • piliferous — having or producing hair.
  • pillarless — having no pillars or upright structural supports
  • plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
  • planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
  • planospore — a zoospore.
  • plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
  • playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
  • pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
  • plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
  • plunderers — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
  • pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
  • pole horse — a horse harnessed to the tongue of a vehicle; poler; wheeler.
  • polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • polymerase — any of several enzymes that catalyze the formation of a long-chain molecule by linking smaller molecular units, as nucleotides with nucleic acids.
  • polymerise — to subject to polymerization.
  • polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.
  • polymerous — Biology. composed of many parts.
  • polyspermy — the fertilization of an ovum by several spermatozoa.
  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
  • portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
  • postgresql — (database)   /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
  • powderless — lacking powder, not involving or containing powder
  • power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
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