9-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keep dark — to keep secret or hidden
- keg party — a beer bust.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- la trappe — La Trappe.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- laplander — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leporidae — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- loo paper — toilet paper
- lop-eared — having ears that droop or hang down.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- madrepore — any true or stony coral of the order Madreporaria, forming reefs or islands in tropical seas.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- man power — the power supplied by human physical exertions: an ancient building constructed entirely by man power.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.