9-letter words containing i, s, o, p, e, r
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- portieres — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potteries — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- preimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prescious — prescient
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- redispose — to rearrange; readjust
- repositor — any surgical instrument used for correcting the position of displaced organs or bones
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.