9-letter words containing i, p, r
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
- misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misprized — Simple past tense and past participle of misprize.
- misprizer — a despiser or scorner
- misprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- monoprint — A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
- morphisms — Plural form of morphism.
- morphosis — the sequence or manner of development or change in an organism or any of its parts.
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- n'importe — no matter
- napierian — of, relating to, or formulated by John Napier.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nephridia — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- nephritic — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- nipperkin — (archaic) A small cup or other vessel, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
- nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nonparity — the condition of having no parity; the state of not being equal
- nonprofit — not established for the purpose of making a profit; not entered into for money: a nonprofit institution.
- nootropic — (medicine) Any substance purported to increase cognitive abilities.
- np tricky — (humour) A play on NP hard describing an algorithm or piece of code that is too complicated for a mere mortal to understand.
- nullipara — a woman who has never borne a child.
- nullipore — any of the coralline algae with a crustlike plant body.
- obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- off-price — offering or dealing in goods, especially brand-name apparel, at prices lower than those at regular retail stores or discount stores.