9-letter words containing i, p, r
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- aspirator — a device employing suction, such as a jet pump or one for removing fluids from a body cavity
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
- b-picture — B-movie.
- backprint — The mark or impression left by a person's back having been pressed against a surface.
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- baptistry — a part of a Christian church in which baptisms are carried out
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- bipyramid — a geometrical form consisting of two pyramids with a common polygonal base
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- boat trip — a trip in a boat
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- calpurnia — flourished 1st century b.c, third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44. Compare Cornelia (def 2), Pompeia.
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- capillary — Capillaries are tiny blood vessels in your body.
- capitular — of or associated with a cathedral chapter
- capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- capriform — resembling a goat
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- captainry — captainship