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10-letter words containing p, t, e, r

  • archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
  • archetypes — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
  • archetypic — Archetypical.
  • archpriest — (formerly) a chief assistant to a bishop, performing many of his sacerdotal functions during his absence
  • arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
  • areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
  • aristotype — a process of photographic printing in which paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin is used.
  • armipotent — strong in arms or war
  • arpeggiate — to play an arpeggio
  • ascriptive — having the ability to be attributable to
  • aspartates — Plural form of aspartate.
  • asperating — to make rough, harsh, or uneven: a voice asperated by violent emotion.
  • asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
  • asperities — Plural form of asperity.
  • aspirinate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of aspirin.
  • at a price — If you can buy something that you want at a price, it is for sale, but it is extremely expensive.
  • at present — A situation that exists at present exists now, although it may change.
  • atmosphere — A planet's atmosphere is the layer of air or other gases around it.
  • atropatene — Media Atropatene.
  • attoparsec — (unit, humour)   About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
  • autorepeat — Any feature that repeats an action automatically.
  • azeotropes — Plural form of azeotrope.
  • b particle — B meson.
  • bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
  • baptistery — a place, esp. a part of a church, used for baptizing
  • barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
  • baroceptor — Baroreceptor.
  • bel esprit — a witty or clever person
  • bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
  • billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
  • biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
  • biparental — from two parents
  • biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
  • birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
  • bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
  • blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
  • blue peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
  • break step — to cease to march in step
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
  • bridgeport — a port in SW Connecticut, on Long Island Sound. Pop: 139 664 (2003 est)
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • burst page — banner
  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
  • campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
  • campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
  • cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
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