9-letter words containing c, o, r, p
- princedom — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- 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.
- probiotic — a usually dairy food or a dietary supplement containing live bacteria that replace or add to the beneficial bacteria normally present in the gastrointestinal tract.
- proboscis — the trunk of an elephant.
- procacity — insolence
- procambia — plant part in stem and root
- procedure — subroutine
- proceeded — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
- proceeder — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
- procellas — pucellas.
- procerity — tallness
- processed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- processer — a person or thing that processes.
- processes — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- processor — a person or thing that processes.
- prochurch — favourable to the church
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctitis — inflammation of the rectum and anus.
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- proctored — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- procuracy — the office of a proctor or procurator.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- procureur — a procurator; the chief prosecuting attorney in France (procureur général)
- procuring — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- procyonid — any animal of the family Procyonidae, including the raccoons
- producers — a person who produces.
- producing — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prog rock — a style of rock music originating in the 1970s and characterized by large-scale compositions, often on epic themes, in which musicians display instrumental virtuosity
- projected — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- projector — an apparatus for throwing an image on a screen, as a motion-picture projector or magic lantern.
- 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.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolicide — the killing of one's child.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- prongbuck — a pronghorn antelope from North America
- pronounce — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- pronuncio — a papal ambassador in a country that does not grant the Pope's ambassador precedence over other ambassadors
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.