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

  • piesporter — any of various white wines from the area around the village of Piesport in the Moselle valley in Germany
  • piezometer — any of several instruments for measuring the pressure of a fluid or the compressibility of a substance when subjected to such a pressure.
  • piezometry — the measurement of pressure or compressibility.
  • pilot bird — a warbler of forest floors in SE Australia, Pycnoptilus floccosus, named from its alleged habit of accompanying the superb lyrebird
  • pinot noir — any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
  • pinspotter — pinsetter.
  • pirouetter — someone who performs pirouettes
  • piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
  • pit worker — a person who works down a mine, esp a coal miner
  • pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • plauditory — approving or laudatory
  • pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
  • pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
  • podiatrist — a person qualified to diagnose and treat foot disorders.
  • point tire — drawn work.
  • pollinator — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
  • polo shirt — a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar.
  • polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
  • polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
  • polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
  • pontonnier — a builder of pontoon bridges
  • pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
  • pool train — a train operating over a track owned by two or more railway companies.
  • poor white — a member of a class of white people, especially of the southern U.S., having low social status and little or no money, property, or education. See also white trash.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
  • pornotopia — a fantasy state or place in which everyone is willing to indulge in sexual activity, esp the setting for pornographic literature
  • porrection — the act of holding something out for presentation or acceptance
  • port blair — a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.
  • port louis — an island in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 720 sq. mi. (1865 sq. km).
  • port pirie — a city in S Australia.
  • portakabin — A Portakabin is a small building that can be moved by truck and that can be used for a short period of time, for example as a temporary office.
  • portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
  • portending — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
  • portioning — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
  • portionist — a student at Merton College, Oxford who receives a food or academic allowance from the College, later referred to as a postmaster
  • 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.
  • porto rico — former official name (until 1932) of Puerto Rico.
  • portoviejo — a city in W Ecuador, on the Portoviejo River.
  • portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
  • positioner — a person or thing that positions.
  • postcrisis — taking place after a crisis
  • postprison — relating to or occurring in the period after a person has been incarcerated
  • postscript — a paragraph, phrase, etc., added to a letter that has already been concluded and signed by the writer.
  • poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
  • posturized — to posture; pose.
  • pot liquor — Midland and Southern U.S. the broth in which meat or vegetables, as salt pork or greens, have been cooked.
  • potentiary — a person with power or authority
  • potsticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
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