10-letter words containing p, u, r, s
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- postocular — located behind the eye
- postpartum — of or noting the period of time following childbirth; after delivery.
- postulator — a priest who presents a plea for a beatification or the canonization of a beatus. Compare devil's advocate (def 2).
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- pre-assume — to take for granted or without proof: to assume that everyone wants peace. Synonyms: suppose, presuppose; postulate, posit.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- preciouses — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- 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.
- precocious — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- precursive — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
- precursors — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- precursory — of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks.
- predacious — predatory; rapacious.
- prediscuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- prejudices — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- premeasure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prerequest — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- press stud — snap fastener.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- 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.
- presuppose — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- presurgery — the art, practice, or work of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by manual or operative procedures.
- presurmise — a surmise previously formed.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- pro-busing — favoring or advocating legislation that requires the busing of students to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school.
- procacious — insolent
- 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
- procrustes — a robber who stretched or amputated the limbs of travelers to make them conform to the length of his bed. He was killed by Theseus.
- prodigious — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
- 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
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.