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10-letter words containing t, a, p, i, r

  • pasteurise — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
  • pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
  • pastry mix — a product that can be mixed with water to make pastry
  • pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
  • patio door — Patio doors are glass doors that lead onto a patio.
  • patisserie — a shop where pastry, especially French pastry, is made and sold.
  • patna rice — a variety of long-grain rice, used for savoury dishes
  • patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
  • patrialism — (in Britain formerly) the policy regarding conferment of patrial status
  • patriality — (in Britain formerly) the right to patrial status
  • patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
  • patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
  • patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
  • patriating — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
  • patriation — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
  • patriciate — the patrician class.
  • patricidal — the act of killing one's own father.
  • patricliny — patrocliny.
  • patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
  • patrilocal — virilocal.
  • patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
  • patristics — patrology (def 1).
  • patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
  • patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
  • patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronizer — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
  • patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
  • patterning — a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.
  • pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
  • pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
  • pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
  • pediatrics — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
  • pediatrist — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
  • pejoration — depreciation; a lessening in worth, quality, etc.
  • pejorative — having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force: the pejorative affix -ling in princeling.
  • penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
  • pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
  • per capita — per person
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
  • peridental — periodontal.
  • perimetral — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • peripeteia — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
  • peripteral — (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.
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