10-letter words containing t, e, r, s, n
- panegyrist — a person who panegyrizes; eulogist.
- pantheress — a female panther
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- patronised — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- 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.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- periastron — the point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to apastron).
- perishment — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- persistent — persistence
- persisting — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- personalty — personal estate or property.
- perstringe — to allude to or imply
- pesterment — the fact of pestering or of being subjected to pestering behaviour
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- 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.
- pleasantry — good-humored teasing; banter.
- portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positioner — a person or thing that positions.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- 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.
- postperson — a person who collects and delivers post as a profession
- precedents — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
- predescent — the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- predestine — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- 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).
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presweeten — to sweeten in advance
- 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.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- pristinely — in a pristine manner