9-letter words containing i, r, e, p, l, a
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- presidial — presidential
- presignal — to signal in advance
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- reapplied — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- redisplay — to display again
- reexplain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicase — RNA synthetase.
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- reprieval — reprieve; respite.
- reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- seriplane — a test for evaluating the quality of raw silk by inspecting it under controlled conditions for variations in the diameter of the yarn and for imperfections and content.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spearlike — resembling a spear
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- sprekelia — a bulbous plant, Sprekelia formosissima, from Mexico and Guatemala, related to hippeastrum and grown for its striking crimson or white pendent flowers, in the form of a cross: family Amaryllidaceae
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- tripteral — (of a classical building) having a triple pteron.
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- wild pear — a wild variety of pear, especially Pyrus pyraster or Pyrus caucasica