9-letter words containing i, p, r, o
- 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.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- preimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- preinform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- premorbid — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenomina — praenomen.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- prenotion — a preconception.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preoption — the right of first choice
- preordain — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- prescious — prescient
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
- prigogine — Ilya [il-yuh,, eel-;; Russian ee-lyah] /ˈɪl yə,, ˈil-;; Russian iˈlyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1977.
- primitivo — a black grape grown in the Puglia region of Italy, used for making wine
- primordia — the first recognizable, histologically differentiated stage in the development of an organ.
- princedom — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
- print out — the state of being printed.
- print-out — the state of being printed.
- priorship — the office of a prior
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- 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
- pro-hindu — a person, especially of northern India, who adheres to Hinduism.
- 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.
- probation — the act of testing.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- 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
- procerity — tallness