9-letter words containing a, p, r, o, c
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- pothecary — apothecary.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
- precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procacity — insolence
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- procellas — pucellas.
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- procuracy — the office of a proctor or procurator.
- 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.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- prowl car — squad car.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- 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.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.