10-letter words containing p, u, i, r
- publishers — a publishing company
- puerperium — the four-week period following childbirth.
- pull wires — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- pulverized — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverizer — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pumpkineer — pumpkin
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- pundigrion — a pun
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- pupigerous — (of an insect) having a pupa
- pupiparous — (of an insect) bearing fully developed larvae that are ready to pupate.
- purblindly — in a purblind manner
- purchasing — buying
- pure laine — (in Quebec) a person belonging to a long-established family of French descent
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purgatoire — a river in SE Colorado, flowing NE to the Arkansas River. 186 miles (299 km) long.
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- puritanize — to (cause to) behave like a puritan
- purporting — to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being; profess or claim, often falsely: a document purporting to be official.
- pursership — the position of purser
- pursuingly — in a pursuing manner
- pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
- put in for — to request or apply for
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- 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.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- quadripara — A female which has borne four offspring.
- quadriplex — A building divided into four self-contained residences.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quikscript — Simulation language derived from SIMSCRIPT, based on 20-GATE.
- quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
- quivertips — Plural form of quivertip.
- qwertyuiop — Filler text.
- radiopaque — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- regrouping — to form into a new or restructured group or grouping.
- repetiteur — the vocal coach of an opera chorus.
- repoussoir — a figure or object in the extreme foreground: used as a contrast and to increase the illusion of depth.
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
- reputation — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
- reputative — reputed, putative, regarded as such
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- resupinate — bent backward.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- round trip — a trip to a given place and back again: Fares for round trips often have a discount.