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9-letter words containing c, a, r, p, e

  • parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
  • paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
  • parricide — the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative.
  • patercove — a fraudulent priest
  • pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
  • patricide — the act of killing one's own father.
  • pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
  • pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • pecuniary — of or relating to money: pecuniary difficulties.
  • pediatric — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
  • pedicular — of or relating to lice.
  • peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
  • pentarchy — a government by five persons.
  • percaline — a fine, lightweight cotton fabric, usually finished with a gloss and dyed in one color, used especially for linings.
  • perceable — pierceable
  • percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
  • perchance — Literary. perhaps; maybe; possibly.
  • percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
  • percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
  • peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
  • periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
  • periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
  • pericopae — a selection or extract from a book.
  • periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
  • permeance — the act of permeating.
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • 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.
  • pipe rack — a steel framed structure that pipes (used to drill for oil, etc) are stacked on for storage
  • pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.
  • piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
  • podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
  • praiseach — a type of porridge made with oatmeal
  • 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-clean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
  • pre-enact — to enact beforehand
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