9-letter words containing i, p, r
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- oil-paper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
- open fire — start shooting
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- ophiuroid — any echinoderm of the subclass Ophiuroidea, including brittle stars, basket stars, and others, characterized by elongate arms radiating from the disk.
- opium war — a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
- orpharion — (music) A musical instrument of the Renaissance, part of the cittern family, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute's and plucked with the fingers.
- orpington — one of a breed of large, white-skinned chickens.
- orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
- orthoptic — pertaining to or producing normal binocular vision.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- outspring — to spring out
- outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- outstrips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstrip.
- over-ripe — too ripe; more than ripe: overripe tomatoes.
- overequip — to equip, furnish with, or supply excessively
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overplaid — a plaid pattern superimposed on another plaid
- overpoise — the action of weighing down on something
- overprice — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
- overprint — Printing. to print additional material or another color on a form or sheet previously printed.
- overprize — to prize too highly; overvalue.
- overripen — to make or become too ripe
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- oviraptor — a bipedal dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, having a toothless jaw and long forelimbs with clawed fingers
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- p/e ratio — price-to-earnings ratio
- packtrain — a line or succession of pack animals, as mules or burros, used to transport food and supplies over terrain unsuitable for wagons or other vehicles.
- padre pio — a form of punishment shooting employed by paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in which the victim is shot through the palms of both hands
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.