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10-letter words containing u, r, a, s

  • outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
  • outsmarted — to get the better of (someone); outwit.
  • outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
  • outspreads — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspread.
  • outstaring — Present participle of outstare.
  • outtravels — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outtravel.
  • over-abuse — to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one's authority.
  • overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
  • oxyuriasis — human infection with pinworms.
  • paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  • palaverous — a conference or discussion.
  • palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
  • panivorous — subsisting on bread; bread-eating.
  • paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
  • parageusia — an abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.
  • pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
  • parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
  • pari passu — with equal pace or progress; side by side.
  • paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
  • paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
  • paronymous — containing the same root or stem, as the words wise and wisdom.
  • part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
  • parvovirus — Veterinary Pathology. a highly contagious, often fatal viral disease of dogs, characterized by vomiting, severe diarrhea, and depression and accompanied by high fever and loss of appetite.
  • 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.
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • pea souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • pea-souper — Chiefly British Informal. pea soup (def 2).
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
  • peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
  • percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
  • perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
  • persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • picaresque — pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by a form of prose fiction, originally developed in Spain, in which the adventures of an engagingly roguish hero are described in a series of usually humorous or satiric episodes that often depict, in realistic detail, the everyday life of the common people: picaresque novel; picaresque hero.
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
  • plumassier — a person who works with ornamental feathers
  • podocarpus — any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Podocarpus, of tropical and semitropical regions, especially P. macrophyllus, which is cultivated as an ornamental.
  • popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
  • popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
  • porraceous — resembling a leek, esp in colour
  • port sudan — a seaport in the NE Sudan, on the Red Sea.
  • port-salut — a yellow, whole-milk cheese, especially that made at the monastery of Port du Salut near the town of Laval, France.
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