10-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- paderewski — Ignace [French ee-nyas] /French iˈnyas/ (Show IPA), or Ignacy Jan [Polish ig-nah-tsi yahn] /Polish ɪgˈnɑ tsɪ yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1860–1941, Polish pianist, composer, patriot, and statesman.
- paedotribe — (in ancient Greece) a gymnastics teacher
- page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- painstaker — a painstaking person
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pandermite — a white, marble-like mineral
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- panegyrize — to deliver or write a panegyric about; eulogize.
- panspermia — the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores that develop in the right environment.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantherine — resembling a panther in manner or appearance
- papaverine — a white, crystalline, nonnarcotic, alkaloidal powder, C 2 0 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from opium, but not a morphine derivative and not habit-forming or addicting, used in the treatment of spasms of involuntary muscle, especially of the stomach, bronchi, and arteries.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper mill — factory where paper is made
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paper-thin — extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paradisean — of the genus Paradisaea (birds of paradise)
- paraenesis — advice
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
- parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- paragonite — a mica, similar in composition and appearance to muscovite but containing sodium instead of potassium.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- parametric — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- parapineal — situated beside the pineal gland
- paraplegia — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pareidolia — the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features