10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- pretexting — the practice of deceiving individuals into surrendering personal information for fraudulent purposes
- pretheatre — occurring before a visit to the theatre
- prettified — made pretty
- prettiness — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- pretty boy — if you describe a man as a pretty boy, you are suggesting he is not very manly and too interested in his appearance
- prevenient — coming before; antecedent.
- prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
- preventive — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- prewriting — preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research.
- prewritten — a past participle of write.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prime rate — the minimum interest rate charged by a commercial bank on short-term business loans to large, best-rated customers or corporations.
- prime time — the hours, generally between 8 and 11 p.m., usually having the largest audience of the day.
- primogenit — the eldest child in a family
- principate — supreme power or office.
- printanier — (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- printwheel — daisy wheel.
- prioritise — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- prioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- privatized — (of the production of goods or services) transferred from the public sector of an economy into private ownership and operation
- privatizer — a person who promotes or facilitates privatization (of publicly owned businesses or services)
- prize list — a list of winners of a prize or prizes
- prizefight — a contest between boxers for a prize, a sum of money, etc.; a professional boxing match.
- pro-active — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- pro-soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- procreator — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procrustes — a robber who stretched or amputated the limbs of travelers to make them conform to the length of his bed. He was killed by Theseus.
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- proctodeum — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- proctorage — the duty of a proctor
- proctorize — to exercise the power of a proctor over
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- profulgent — radiant
- progenitor — a biologically related ancestor: a progenitor of the species.