10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supertruck — a fast powerful truck used in truck racing
- supertwist — the effect of twisting light rays to produce a high-resolution liquid crystal display
- suppertime — the time at which supper is served, usually between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppletory — supplying a deficiency.
- supportive — giving support.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- take apart — into pieces or parts; to pieces: to take a watch apart; an old barn falling apart from decay.
- tap dancer — to perform a tap dance.
- tape drive — a program-controlled device that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic tape which moves past a read-write head.
- tape grass — a freshwater plant, Vallisneria spiralis, that has long, ribbonlike leaves and grows under water.
- taper jack — a device for melting sealing wax, having a waxed wick fed through a plate from a reel.
- taperstick — a candlestick designed to hold tapers.
- tapescript — a recording of the spoken word on tape or a transcript of this
- tapestried — furnished or covered with tapestries.
- tapis vert — an unbroken expanse of lawn used as a major element of a landscape design.
- tcherepnin — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
- team sport — a sport in which teams play against each other
- tear apart — rip to pieces
- tear strip — a strip or string that is pulled to open a can, box, candy wrapper, etc.
- ted spread — the difference in value between three-month futures contracts for Treasury bills and for Eurodollars, used to gauge the willingness of banks to lend money
- telecopier — a fax machine
- telegraphy — the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.
- teleport's — a regional telecommunications network that provides access to communications satellites and other long distance media; telecommunications hub.
- telescript — A communications-oriented programming language using "active software agents", released by General Magic in 1994. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols.
- teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tell apart — distinguish between
- telpherage — a transportation system in which cars or other carriers are suspended from or run on wire cables or the like, especially one operated by electricity.
- telpherman — someone who operates or works on a telpher
- temperable — a particular state of mind or feelings.
- temperance — moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control.
- temple bar — a former London gateway before the Temple buildings: the heads of executed traitors and criminals were exhibited on it
- temporally — of or relating to time.
- temporalty — secular things
- tenpounder — ladyfish.
- tepe gawra — an archaeological site in N Iraq, near Mosul: excavations have revealed that numerous settlements have occupied this site since c5000 b.c.
- tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
- term paper — a long essay, report, or the like, written by a student as an assignment over the course of a term or semester.
- terneplate — steel plate coated with terne metal.
- terpolymer — a polymer consisting of three different monomers, as ABS resin.
- terreplein — the top platform or horizontal surface of a rampart where guns are mounted.
- test paper — the paper bearing a student's answers on an examination.
- test strip — a strip of reactive paper that has been impregnated with an indicator for use in chemical tests
- tetraploid — having a chromosome number that is four times the basic or haploid number.
- tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
- tetraptote — a noun having four cases
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- tetraspore — one of the four asexual spores produced within a tetrasporangium.
- the creeps — to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.