9-letter words containing c, r, i, e, t
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- 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.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescript — prescribed.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- price cut — discount, lowering of costs
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- pritchett — Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) [sawd-n] /ˈsɔd n/ (Show IPA), 1900–97, English literary critic, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.
- 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.
- procerity — tallness
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- proteomic — relating to a proteome
- prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- quercetin — a yellow, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 1 5 H 1 0 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the quercitron and other vegetable substances, used as a yellow dye; flavin.
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- race riot — a riot resulting from animosity or tensions between racial or ethnic groups.
- race-riot — a riot resulting from animosity or tensions between racial or ethnic groups.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- 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.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- receipted — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- receiptor — a person who receipts.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recertify — to attest as certain; give reliable information of; confirm: He certified the truth of his claim.
- rechabite — a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society devoted to abstention
- recipient — a person or thing that receives; receiver: the recipient of a prize.
- recitable — to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner: to recite a lesson.
- recitatif — recitative2 .
- reclinate — bending or curved downward.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recordist — Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording on a film set. Compare mixer.
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.