10-letter words containing t, y, p, e
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytheist — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- polytunnel — a large tunnel made of polythene and used as a greenhouse
- polyvalent — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- post entry — a late entry, as a horse in a horse show or race.
- poster boy — a person who appears on a poster
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- prayer mat — mat for kneeling on to pray
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- predictory — predictive.
- preemptory — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prenatally — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prepayment — paying for sth in advance
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- prepuberty — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- presbytery — a body of presbyters or elders.
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- pretty boy — if you describe a man as a pretty boy, you are suggesting he is not very manly and too interested in his appearance
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- propensity — a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.
- prosperity — a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- protensity — the actuality of duration
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protervity — petulance
- protophyte — a single-celled plant of the class Protophyta
- prototyper — An interface builder for the Macintosh from Smethers Barnes.
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- proxy vote — a vote cast by a person's representative
- pseudo-tty — (operating system) Berkeley Unix networking device which appears to an application program as an ordinary terminal but which is in fact connected via the network to a process running on a different host or a windowing system. Pseudo-ttys have a slave half and a control half. The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is the device that user programs use and the control tty (/dev/ptyp*) is used by daemons to talk to the net.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- ptolemy ii — (surnamed Philadelphus) 309?–247? b.c, king of Egypt 285–247? (son of Ptolemy I).
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- punitively — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- pussy-toes — any of various woolly composite plants of the genus Antennaria, having small white or grayish flower heads.
- putatively — commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed: the putative boss of the mob.
- puy lentil — a greyish-green variety of lentil that retains its shape after cooking