9-letter words containing a, p, t, e, r, i
- partridge — any of several Old World gallinaceous game birds of the subfamily Perdicinae, especially Perdix perdix.
- paternity — the state of being a father; fatherhood.
- patissier — a person who makes pastries; a pastry chef
- patriated — to transfer (legislation) to the authority of an autonomous country from its previous mother country.
- patricide — the act of killing one's own father.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- pediatric — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peronista — Peronist.
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- pia mater — the delicate, fibrous, and highly vascular membrane forming the innermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater.
- pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- portatile — portable
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- practiced — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practicer — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pre-audit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa