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10-letter words containing p, u, t, a, i

  • punctation — punctate condition or marking.
  • 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
  • pursuivant — a heraldic officer of the lowest class, ranking below a herald.
  • putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
  • quintipara — A female that has borne five offspring.
  • 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
  • resupinate — bent backward.
  • rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
  • saint paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
  • saint pius — Saint (Giuseppe Sarto) 1835–1914, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1903–14.
  • sampaguita — (in the Philippines) an Arabian jasmine.
  • scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
  • septuagint — the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries.
  • space suit — outfit worn by astronaut
  • spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spiculated — covered with spicules or needle-like
  • spirituals — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • stipulated — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
  • stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
  • subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
  • suboptimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
  • subprimate — a primitive variety of primate
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
  • supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
  • superpaint — (graphics)   A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
  • supination — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the palmar surface is facing upward (opposed to pronation).
  • suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • supplicant — supplicating.
  • supplicate — to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
  • supraoptic — above the optic chiasm
  • supravital — pertaining to or involving a staining method for a preparation of living cells.
  • tamaulipas — a state in NE Mexico, bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. 30,731 sq. mi. (79,595 sq. km). Capital: Ciudad Victoria.
  • tapping up — (esp of a professional soccer club) the illicit practice of attempting to recruit a player while he is still bound by contract to another team
  • tepidarium — a warm room in Roman baths
  • tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
  • tripudiary — pertaining to dancing
  • tripudiate — to dance for joy
  • triumphant — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • ultrarapid — extraordinarily quick or fast
  • unadaptive — serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation: the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.
  • unbaptized — not baptized
  • unemphatic — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unexpiated — not expiated or atoned for
  • unimpacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
  • unimparted — not communicated (to another person)
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