10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phonometer — a device for measuring the intensity of a sound.
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- photometer — an instrument that measures luminous intensity or brightness, luminous flux, light distribution, color, etc., usually by comparing the light emitted by two sources, one source having certain specified standard characteristics.
- photometry — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- photophore — a luminous organ found in certain fishes and crustaceans.
- phototrope — a type of robot that either seeks or flees from sources of bright light
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- pianoforte — a piano.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piece rate — compensation based on a worker's quantitative output or production, usually an agreed sum per article of work turned out.
- pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
- piesporter — any of various white wines from the area around the village of Piesport in the Moselle valley in Germany
- piezometer — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
- piezometry — the measurement of pressure or compressibility.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- pirouetter — someone who performs pirouettes
- pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- plane tree — any tree of the genus Platanus, especially P. occidentalis, the buttonwood or sycamore of North America, having palmately lobed leaves and bark that sheds.
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- planometer — surface plate.
- 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.
- plate mark — hallmark.
- plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
- plate rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
- platelayer — a workman who lays and maintains railway track
- platemaker — a machine that makes plates used for reproducing illustrations or printed matter, especially halftone or etched illustrations.
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- 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.
- pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- pleurodont — fused or attached to the inner edge of the jaw, as a tooth.
- pleurotomy — surgical incision into the pleura, esp to drain fluid, as in pleurisy
- pleximeter — a small, thin plate, as of ivory, placed against the body to mediate the blow of a plexor.
- pleximetry — the practice of using a pleximeter
- pluperfect — Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”.