10-letter words containing r, e, l, t
- ornamental — used or grown for ornament: ornamental plants.
- orthoclase — a common white or pink mineral of the feldspar group, KAlSi 3 O 8 , having two good cleavages at right angles, and found in silica-rich igneous rocks: used in the manufacture of porcelain.
- orthostyle — (of columns) erected in a straight row.
- osteologer — One versed in osteology; an osteologist.
- other half — the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made: a glimpse of how the other half lives.
- otherwhile — at another time or other times.
- otherworld — A world beyond death; an afterlife.
- out-relief — public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution.
- outbluster — to surpass in blustering
- outdeliver — to surpass or outdo in delivery
- outdweller — a person who dwells away from or is remote from a particular place.
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outgeneral — to outdo or surpass in generalship.
- outglitter — to glitter more than
- outlanders — Plural form of outlander.
- outrivaled — Simple past tense and past participle of outrival.
- outsettler — a person who inhabits a remote settlement or area.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
- outworlder — (scifi) One who comes from another planet.
- outwrestle — to beat or be more successful than in wrestling, or in a struggle
- over-alert — abnormally alert
- overbrutal — excessively brutal
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- overlearnt — relating to repetitive practice or learning
- overlength — excessiveness of length
- overmantel — situated above a mantelpiece.
- oversubtle — too subtle (so as to be unnoticed)
- overtimely — untimely
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palpebrate — having eyelids.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- parcel net — a large bag made of netting attached inside (the boot or trunk of) a car and used to store loose items, such as groceries, sports equipment, or parcels, etc
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parentally — of or relating to a parent.
- parenteral — taken into the body in a manner other than through the digestive canal.
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.
- parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
- parnellite — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
- parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- partialize — to bias.
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.