9-letter words containing i, n, a, p, r
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
- pinky bar — a chocolate-covered marshmallow bar
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- planarian — any of various free-swimming, mostly freshwater flatworms of the class Turbellaria, having an undulating or sluglike motion: popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts.
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- plein-air — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- portinari — Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- prayingly — with prayer, prayerfully
- pre-incan — of or relating to the period preceding the Incan empire in Peru.
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prenomina — praenomen.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preordain — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- principia — a principle.
- print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- probation — the act of testing.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- 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.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- promazine — a compound, C 17 H 20 N 2 S, used as a tranquilizer.
- pronation — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the surface of the palm is facing downward or toward the back (opposed to supination).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proration — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.