10-letter words containing p, t, o, e, y
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- predictory — predictive.
- preemptory — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- pretty boy — if you describe a man as a pretty boy, you are suggesting he is not very manly and too interested in his appearance
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protervity — petulance
- protophyte — a single-celled plant of the class Protophyta
- prototyper — An interface builder for the Macintosh from Smethers Barnes.
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- proxy vote — a vote cast by a person's representative
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- ptolemy ii — (surnamed Philadelphus) 309?–247? b.c, king of Egypt 285–247? (son of Ptolemy I).
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrethroid — any of several synthetic compounds that are similar to but more persistent than natural pyrethrins.
- pyretology — a discourse on fevers
- pyroborate — borax1 .
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- pyroxenite — any rock composed essentially, or in large part, of pyroxene of any kind.
- pyrrhotite — a common mineral, iron sulfide, approximately FeS but variable because of a partial absence of ferrous ions, occurring in massive and in crystal forms with a bronze color and metallic luster; magnetic pyrites: generally slightly magnetic.
- pyrrophyte — any of various single-celled, biflagellated algae, of the phylum Pyrrophyta, especially the dinoflagellates.
- pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
- qwertyuiop — Filler text.
- redemptory — of or relating to redemption; redemptive.
- reparatory — tending to repair; repairing; mending.
- reportedly — according to report or rumor: Reportedly, he is a billionaire.
- repository — a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale: a repository for discarded clothing.
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.