10-letter words starting with para
- paraphrast — a person who paraphrases.
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parapineal — situated beside the pineal gland
- paraplegia — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parapodial — of, relating to, or resembling a parapodium
- parapodium — one of the unjointed rudimentary limbs or processes of locomotion of many worms, as annelids.
- parapraxes — a slip of the tongue or pen, forgetfulness, misplacement of objects, or other error thought to reveal unconscious wishes or attitudes.
- parapraxis — a slip of the tongue or pen, forgetfulness, misplacement of objects, or other error thought to reveal unconscious wishes or attitudes.
- pararescue — a rescue, as of persons caught in a disaster, accomplished by parachutists.
- pararthria — incoherence or disorder of speech
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- 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
- parasitism — Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- parasitoid — an organism that practices parasitoidism.
- paraskiing — the sport of jumping off high mountains wearing skis and a light parachute composed of inflatable fabric tubes that form a semirigid wing
- parasomnia — any of several sleep disorders characterized by abnormal or unusual behaviour of the nervous system during any of the stages of sleep
- parastatal — working with the government in an unofficial capacity.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- paratactic — of, relating to, or involving parataxis
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- paratroops — of or relating to a paratrooper or a parachute unit: paratroop boots.
- parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk