9-letter words containing c, s, r
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- precising — a concise summary.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- precrease — to provide (e.g. clothing, paper for origami) with a crease or creases in advance
- precrisis — occurring or existing before a crisis; of or pertaining to the period preceding a crisis
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- 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.
- prescious — prescient
- prescored — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- prescreen — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescript — prescribed.
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- presecure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- preselect — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- presences — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- priceless — having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
- priciness — the state of being pricey
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- 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.
- proboscis — the trunk of an elephant.
- procellas — pucellas.
- 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.
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- 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.
- proctitis — inflammation of the rectum and anus.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.