9-letter words containing c, o, p, i, e, r
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- off-price — offering or dealing in goods, especially brand-name apparel, at prices lower than those at regular retail stores or discount stores.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overprice — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- parecious — paroicous.
- paregoric — a camphorated tincture of opium, containing benzoic acid, anise oil, etc., used chiefly to stop diarrhea in children.
- paroemiac — proverbial; axiomatic
- pedorthic — (of footwear) designed to alleviate problems with feet, lower limbs, posture, etc
- perciform — a perch-like fish
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- pericopae — a selection or extract from a book.
- peridotic — of, relating to, or containing peridot
- periproct — (in certain echinoids) that part of the body surface bordering the anus.
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- peroxidic — of the nature of a peroxide; containing a peroxide or constituting part of a peroxide group
- petrichor — a distinctive scent, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, produced by rainfall on very dry ground.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- picocurie — a trillionth of a curie, which is a unit of radioactivity
- picometer — one trillionth of a meter
- picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- porcupine — any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
- poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
- porticoed — provided with a portico or porticoes.
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- 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.