10-letter words containing p, r, y, a, t
- parrot cry — a remark, complaint, etc that is repeated or imitated mechanically without understanding
- partiality — the state or character of being partial.
- partisanly — in a partisan manner
- party boat — a boat that takes paying passengers for a day or several hours of fishing, as in coastal waters or a bay, and usually rents fishing tackle and sells or provides bait.
- party food — food that is served at parties; snacks
- party game — a game played at a party, esp at a children's party
- party girl — a girl or woman who is interested in little else besides attending parties.
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- party list — of or relating to a system of voting in which people vote for a party rather than for a candidate. Parties are assigned the number of seats which reflects their share of the vote
- party mood — a celebratory mood; readiness for a party
- party plan — of or relating to a method of selling products such as jewellery, clothes, or kitchen items: agents hold a party at which they display and sell the goods
- party poop — to behave like a party pooper.
- party time — the season for parties
- party wall — a wall used, or usable, as a part of contiguous structures.
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- party-goer — A party-goer is someone who likes going to parties or someone who is at a particular party.
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastry bag — a conical tube with a patterned hole at one end, fitted over the opening of a cloth funnel (pastry bag) for shaping icings, food pastes, etc., as they are forced through by squeezing the bag.
- pastry mix — a product that can be mixed with water to make pastry
- pastrycook — a person who makes pastry or pastries
- paternally — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- patriality — (in Britain formerly) the right to patrial status
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- 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.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pity party — indulgence in self-pity
- pityriasis — Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- platelayer — a workman who lays and maintains railway track
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- play dirty — use unfair or dishonest tactics
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- plutolatry — the worship of wealth or material possessions
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.