10-letter words containing r, e, p, u
- perruquier — a person who creates, styles, or sells perukes or hair-pieces
- perrysburg — a town in NW Ohio.
- persecuted — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persecutee — a person who is subjected to persecution
- persecutor — to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- persifleur — a person who is fond of persiflage
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
- perturbant — a thing that causes perturbance
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- petersburg — a city in SE Virginia: besieged by Union forces 1864–65.
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- petit jury — petty jury.
- petrolatum — a translucent gelatinous substance obtained from petroleum; used as a lubricant and in medicine as an ointment base and protective dressing
- petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
- petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pirouetter — someone who performs pirouettes
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plenilunar — relating to a full moon
- pleno jure — with full authority.
- plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
- pleurodont — fused or attached to the inner edge of the jaw, as a tooth.
- pleurotomy — surgical incision into the pleura, esp to drain fluid, as in pleurisy
- plow under — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
- plumb rule — a device for determining perpendicularity, consisting of a narrow board with a plumb line and bob suspended from an upper edge.
- plunderage — act of plundering; pillage.
- plunderers — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
- pluperfect — Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”.
- pneumogram — a record of respiratory movements
- polymerous — Biology. composed of many parts.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- porousness — full of pores.
- porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- pourparler — an informal preliminary conference.