10-letter words containing t, e, m, p, r
- prestamped — stamped in advance
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prime rate — the minimum interest rate charged by a commercial bank on short-term business loans to large, best-rated customers or corporations.
- prime time — the hours, generally between 8 and 11 p.m., usually having the largest audience of the day.
- primogenit — the eldest child in a family
- printmaker — a person who makes prints, especially an artist working in one of the graphic mediums.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- proctodeum — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- procumbent — lying on the face; prone; prostrate.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- promotable — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propelment — the act of propulsion
- prosternum — the ventral sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- proteiform — changeable in form; multiform
- proteomics — the study of the functions, structures, and interactions of proteins; the study of the proteome.
- proto team — a team of workers trained to perform underground rescues
- protostome — any member of the lower invertebrate phyla in which the mouth appears before the anus during development, cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the coelom forms as a splitting of the mesoderm.
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- psalterium — the omasum.
- pulsimeter — an instrument for measuring the strength or quickness of the pulse.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pump-water — water that has been sourced from under soil level by means of a pump
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- rampasture — a large attic room.
- re-attempt — to attempt (something) again
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- recomputed — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- recoupment — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- redemption — an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
- redemptive — serving to redeem.
- redemptory — of or relating to redemption; redemptive.
- repinement — the act of repining, discontentment
- reshipment — the act of reshipping
- resumption — the act of resuming; a reassumption, as of something previously granted.
- resumptive — that summarizes: a resumptive statement.
- revampment — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rump steak — Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
- sapperment — a German oath
- schumpeter — Joseph Alois [uh-lois] /əˈlɔɪs/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, U.S. economist, born in Austria.
- sempstress — seamstress.
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).