10-letter words containing p, u, r, l
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
- port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- pot liquor — Midland and Southern U.S. the broth in which meat or vegetables, as salt pork or greens, have been cooked.
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- pourparler — an informal preliminary conference.
- powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
- praeludium — a prelude, now predominantly in a musical context
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preclosure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preclusive — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preculture — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- prefulgent — more radiant than others
- prefuneral — the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
- prelingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- prenatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- prenuclear — of or relating to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.
- prenuptial — before marriage.
- prepuberal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.
- presumably — by assuming reasonably; probably: Since he is a consistent winner, he is presumably a superior player.
- presumedly — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- pridefully — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- procedural — procedural language
- procellous — stormy, as the sea.
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
- procurable — obtainable.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- profluence — abundance
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profulgent — radiant
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- prolixious — (of speech, music, writing) long-winded; drawn out
- prolocutor — a presiding officer of an assembly; chairperson.
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.