10-Letter Words That Start With: PEP

• herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring

• red gum tree of Tasmania

• a candy flavored with peppermint oil

• pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground

• any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage

• a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)

• precursor of pepsin; stored in the stomach walls and converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid in the stomach

• any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis