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9-letter words containing c, o, r, p

  • 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
  • porcupine — any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
  • pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
  • porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
  • poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
  • poroscope — an instrument for measuring porosity
  • poroscopy — a method for identifying people by the impression left by the pores of the finger(s)
  • porphyric — of or relating to porphyria
  • portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
  • 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.
  • portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
  • 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.
  • post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
  • postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
  • pothecary — apothecary.
  • potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
  • power cut — break in electricity supply
  • 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.
  • practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
  • praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
  • 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.
  • prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
  • precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
  • precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
  • preceptor — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • prechoose — to choose in advance
  • prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
  • precision — the state or quality of being precise.
  • precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
  • precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
  • precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • preconize — to proclaim or commend publicly.
  • precooked — to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.
  • precooker — a device for cooking or partially cooking food in advance of final preparations
  • precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
  • predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
  • prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
  • premosaic — of the period before Moses
  • preoccupy — to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
  • preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
  • prerecord — to record beforehand or in advance.
  • preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
  • prescious — prescient
  • prescored — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
  • prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
  • prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
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