10-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- pilgrimize — to go on a pilgrimage
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pillarless — having no pillars or upright structural supports
- pin cherry — any of several species of cherry, especially Prunus padus (European bird cherry) of Europe and Asia, and P. pensylvanica (pin cherry) of the U.S.
- pin clover — alfilaria.
- pin wrench — a wrench having a pin for insertion into the heads of certain bolts to drive them. Compare spanner (def 2).
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pine grove — a group of pine trees that are close together
- 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.
- pinnigrade — moving by means of finlike parts or flippers, as the seals and walruses.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- pioneer 10 — a US spacecraft that studied the solar system, making the first flyby of Jupiter in 1973
- pioneer 11 — a US spacecraft that studied the solar system, making the first flyby of Saturn in 1979
- pioneering — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- pipe dream — unattainable wish
- pipe major — the noncommissioned officer, generally of warrant officer's rank, who is responsible for the training, duty, and discipline of a military or civilian pipe band
- pipe organ — organ (def 1).
- pipe-dream — to indulge in pipe dreams; fantasize.
- pipe-layer — a worker employed in laying a pipeline or one experienced in such work.
- piperazine — Also called piperazidine [pip-uh-raz-i-deen, -din, pahy-puh-] /ˌpɪp əˈræz ɪˌdin, -dɪn, ˌpaɪ pə-/ (Show IPA). a colorless, crystalline, deliquescent ring compound, C 4 H 1 0 N 2 , prepared by the reaction of ethylene bromide or ethylene chloride with ammonia: used chiefly in veterinary medicine as an anthelmintic, and as an insecticide.
- piperidine — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 5 H 1 1 N, obtained from the alkaloid piperine or from pyridine: used chiefly as a solvent.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- 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.
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarize — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plane iron — the blade of a plane.
- planimeter — an instrument for measuring mechanically the area of plane figures.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- 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 rail — a rail or narrow shelf fixed along a wall to hold plates, especially for ornament or display.
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- 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
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- point tire — drawn work.
- poker dice — (used with a plural verb) dice that, instead of being marked with spots, carry on their faces a picture or symbol representing the six highest playing cards: ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine.
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- police car — squad car.
- pollenizer — a plant which provides pollen
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron