9-letter words containing a, n, t, i, p
- polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
- pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- pontianak — a seaport on W Kalimantan (Borneo), in central Indonesia.
- portinari — Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- probation — the act of testing.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- pronation — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the surface of the palm is facing downward or toward the back (opposed to supination).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proration — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- ptarmigan — any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, of mountainous and cold northern regions, having feathered feet.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- punctatim — point for point.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- reappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- repeating — repeating or saying again
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- reptation — a creeping motion; the act of crawling
- reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- sahaptian — a family of North American Indian languages consisting of Sahaptin and Nez Percé
- saintship — the qualities or status of a saint.