9-letter words containing c, a, r, p, i
- 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.
- preadamic — occurring or existing before Adam
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- 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.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- principia — a principle.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- priscilla — a female given name: from a Roman family name.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- 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
- 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.
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- 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.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- 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.
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicase — RNA synthetase.
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- 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
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.