10-letter words containing y, t, r, i
- party time — the season for parties
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- pastry mix — a product that can be mixed with water to make pastry
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- patriality — (in Britain formerly) the right to patrial status
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pelvimetry — measurement of the diameters of the female pelvis, especially the birth canal.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- periphyton — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- perpetuity — the state or character of being perpetual (often preceded by in): to desire happiness in perpetuity.
- perplexity — the state of being perplexed; confusion; uncertainty.
- perversity — the state or quality of being perverse.
- petit jury — petty jury.
- petrifying — stunning or dazing with horror, fear, etc
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- piezometry — the measurement of pressure or compressibility.
- pigmentary — of, pertaining to, having, or producing pigment.
- pity party — indulgence in self-pity
- pityriasis — Pathology. any of various skin diseases marked by the shedding of branlike scales of epidermis.
- planimetry — the measurement of plane areas.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- play dirty — use unfair or dishonest tactics
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- pleiotropy — the phenomenon of one gene being responsible for or affecting more than one phenotypic characteristic.
- pleximetry — the practice of using a pleximeter
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- pontypridd — an industrial town in S Wales, in Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough. Pop: 29 781 (2001)
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- portraying — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- potentiary — a person with power or authority
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- predictory — predictive.
- 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
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- privy coat — a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- procryptic — serving to conceal an animal from predators.