10-letter words containing s, e, t, p, r
- petroleous — having or consisting of petroleum or an oil obtained from rock
- petroleuse — a female individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- petrópolis — a city in SE Brazil, north of Rio de Janeiro: resort. Pop: 280 000 (2005 est)
- petrostate — a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- picturised — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piesporter — any of various white wines from the area around the village of Piesport in the Moselle valley in Germany
- pigsticker — to hunt for wild boar, usually on horseback and using a spear.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pine straw — fallen pine needles.
- pink stern — a sharp stern having a narrow, overhanging, raking transom.
- pinspotter — pinsetter.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- playstreet — an urban street closed to traffic during specified times and sometimes equipped with recreational facilities, for use by children as a play area.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- poetastery — the work done by a poetaster
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- portuguese — of, relating to, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- post horse — a horse kept, as at a station on a post road, for the use of persons riding post or for hire by travelers.
- postarrest — following an arrest, occurring after someone has been arrested
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- postfreeze — taking place after a freeze
- postgresql — (database) /'post-gres-kyu-el/ An enhancement of the POSTGRES database system. PostgreSQL is an advanced relational database management system with some object oriented approaches. PostgreSQL is developed and distributed as free software, and while retaining its freedom it remains technically and featurewise a worthy competitor to even the most advanced commercial alternatives. It was also one of the first databases to offer MVCC as opposed to row-level locking or table locking, thereby greatly improving multi-user performance. PostgreSQL implements an extended subset of ANSI SQL and runs on many platforms. It also has interfaces to many different programming languages and database protocols, like ODBC and JDBC.
- postmarked — an official mark stamped on letters and other mail, serving as a cancellation of the postage stamp and indicating the place, date, and sometimes time of sending or receipt.
- postmaster — the official in charge of a post office.
- postmodern — noting or pertaining to architecture of the late 20th century, appearing in the 1960s, that consciously uses complex forms, fantasy, and allusions to historic styles, in contrast to the austere forms and emphasis on utility of standard modern architecture.
- postmortem — of, relating to, or occurring in the time following death.
- postperson — a person who collects and delivers post as a profession
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- practicers — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
- praetorius — Michael (Michael Schultheiss) 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
- praxiteles — flourished c350 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- pre-easter — an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- preaseptic — pertaining to the period before the use of aseptic practices in surgery.