10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- pepperwort — water clover.
- pequot war — a war in 1637 between Connecticut colonists, aided by British soldiers and friendly Indian tribes, and the Pequot Indians under their chief, Sassacus, that resulted in the defeat and dispersion of the Pequot tribe.
- per capita — per person
- per centum — percent (def 1).
- per contra — on the other hand; on the contrary.
- percentage — a rate or proportion per hundred.
- percentile — one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies: Ninety percent of the values lie at or below the ninetieth percentile, ten percent above it.
- perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- perceptive — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perceptron — 1. A single McCulloch-Pitts neuron. 2. A network of neurons in which the output(s) of some neurons are connected through weighted connections to the input(s) of other neurons. A multilayer perceptron is a specific instance of this.
- perceptual — of, relating to, or involving perception.
- percipient — perceiving or capable of perceiving.
- percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
- percurrent — extending through the entire length, as a midrib through a leaf.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- percutient — anything that strikes against something else
- perdu-mont — Mont [mawn] /mɔ̃/ (Show IPA). French name of Monte Perdido.
- peremptory — leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- perfective — tending to make perfect; conducive to perfection.
- perficient — someone who or something that accomplishes or completes a task, etc
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- perforated — perforated.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- pericenter — the point at which a heavenly body orbiting around a primary other than the earth or sun is closest to the primary.
- pericentre — the point in an elliptical orbit that is nearest to the centre of mass of the system
- peridental — periodontal.
- peridotite — a coarsely granular igneous rock composed chiefly of olivine with an admixture of various other minerals.
- perimetral — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- perimetric — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- periosteum — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- peripeteia — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- peripteral — (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- peritectic — of or noting the phase intermediate between a solid and the liquid that results from the melting of the solid.
- perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- peritoneum — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
- permadeath — (in a game, often a video game) the permanent death of a defeated character, after which the player of the game cannot continue with the same character.
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- permeation — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- permeative — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- permethrin — a synthetic chemical compound with formula C21H20Cl2O3, effective as an insecticide and against various parasites
- permitting — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
- permutable — to alter; change.
- pernickety — persnickety.