9-letter words containing a, t, r, c
- practicer — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practicum — (in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.
- 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.
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- pragmatic — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- pratchett — Sir Terence (David John), known as Terry. (1948–2015), British writer, noted for his comic fantasy novels in the Discworld series
- pre-chart — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- pre-enact — to enact beforehand
- 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.
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- prerectal — in front of the rectum
- prevacate — to give up possession or occupancy of: to vacate an apartment.
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- 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
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- 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.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- quadratic — square.
- race hate — the hate of or bias against people of other races
- race riot — a riot resulting from animosity or tensions between racial or ethnic groups.
- race-riot — a riot resulting from animosity or tensions between racial or ethnic groups.
- raceabout — a small, sloop-rigged racing yacht with a short bowsprit.
- racemates — Plural form of racemate.
- racetrack — a plot of ground, usually oval, laid out for horse racing.
- racialist — racism.
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- rack rate — full charge for a hotel room
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.