10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- presenting — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- presentist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse are now being fulfilled. Compare futurist, preterist (def 1).
- presentive — notional (def 7).
- press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretensive — pretentious
- prettiness — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prioritise — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- prize list — a list of winners of a prize or prizes
- pro-soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
- 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.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- properties — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
- propertius — Sextus [seks-tuh s] /ˈsɛks təs/ (Show IPA), c50–c15 b.c, Roman poet.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prosilient — prominent
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- prosthesis — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
- prostitute — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteinase — any of a group of enzymes that are capable of hydrolyzing proteins.
- proteinous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protension — duration
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- protensive — extended in dimension or extended in time.
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- protestive — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- protrusive — projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
- prudentius — Aurelius Clemens (ɔːˈriːlɪəs ˈklɛmɛnz). 348–410 ad, Latin Christian poet, born in Spain. His works include the allegory Psychomachia
- psalterian — psalm-like
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- purgatives — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- putrescine — a colourless crystalline amine produced by decaying animal matter; 1,4-diaminobutane. Formula: H2N(CH2)4NH2
- 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.
- quadrisect — to divide (something) into four equal parts.
- questioner — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.