9-letter words containing i, r, a, t, o
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostrasize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outraging — Present participle of outrage.
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overstain — to stain too much
- overtrain — to train excessively
- oviparity — 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
- p/e ratio — price-to-earnings ratio
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- parathion — a deep-brown to yellow, poisonous liquid, C 1 0 H 1 4 NO 5 PS, used as an insecticide.
- paratonic — (of a plant movement) occurring in response to an external stimulus
- parotitic — of or relating to parotitis.
- parotitis — inflammation of a parotid.
- parroting — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- partition — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patriotic — of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pavarotti — Luciano [loo-chee-ah-noh;; Italian loo-chah-naw] /ˌlu tʃiˈɑ noʊ;; Italian luˈtʃɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1935–2007, Italian operatic tenor.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- peronista — Peronist.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- pictogram — pictograph.
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portatile — portable
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- portinari — Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predation — depredation; plundering.