9-letter words containing i, p, r
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- life peer — a peer whose title ceases at death; nonhereditary peer.
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- line drop — the decrease in voltage between two points on an electric line, often caused by resistance or leakage along the line.
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lipotropy — the process of breaking down excess fat in the human body
- liquor up — a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.
- liripipes — Plural form of liripipe.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- liverpool — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microcopy — a microphotographic copy of a printed page or the like, as in microfilm or microfiche.
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mid-price — at a medium or average price; not particularly expensive nor particularly cheap
- midpriced — Alternative spelling of mid-priced.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- minorship — the state of being a minor