10-letter words containing r, e, p, l, i, s
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- 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.
- prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- previsible — that can be seen; perceptible to the eye: mountains visible in the distance.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- princessly — resembling a princess
- principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- privileges — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- privy seal — (in Great Britain) the seal affixed to grants, documents, etc., that are to pass the great seal, and to documents of less importance that do not require the great seal.
- prize list — a list of winners of a prize or prizes
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- propulsive — the act or process of propelling.
- prosilient — prominent
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- publishers — a publishing company
- 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.
- 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.
- reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
- respelling — to spell again or anew.
- respirable — capable of being respired.
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- sailplaner — a person who flies sailplanes
- sale price — discounted cost
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- screw pile — a pile that is used for the foundations of bridges, lighthouses, etc., and has a screwlike lower end for drilling through and taking firm hold in compacted material.
- self-pride — pride in one's abilities, status, possessions, etc.; self-esteem.
- sewer pill — a ribbed wooden ball for scraping the walls of a sewer through which it floats.
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- silk paper — paper that contains silk fibers and is sometimes used for printing postage stamps and revenue stamps.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- sine prole — without offspring or progeny: to die sine prole.
- sleepshirt — a shirtlike garment, usually knee-length or shorter, worn for sleeping.
- slipperier — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).