10-letter words containing p, t, e
- 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.
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- autorepeat — Any feature that repeats an action automatically.
- azeotropes — Plural form of azeotrope.
- b particle — B meson.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- 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.
- baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
- 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.
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
- beast epic — a long verse narrative in which the misadventures of animals satirize human foibles and follies.
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- bench stop — a metal device set flush with the top of a workbench and having a portion able to be raised to stop longitudinal movement of an object placed against it.
- betel palm — a tropical Asian feather palm, Areca catechu, with scarlet or orange fruits
- beth-phage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- 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
- bipedality — the quality of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- blackplate — cold-rolled sheet steel before pickling or cleaning.
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- blue peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
- blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- bonnet top — a top to a secretary, highboy, etc., following in outline a broken pediment on the front.
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- bottle-top — a cap on the top of a bottle
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- 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.