9-letter words containing n, o, t, r, a
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overtrain — to train excessively
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paintwork — layer of paint on wall or vehicle
- pantropic — (especially of viruses) attracted to or affecting many types of body tissues.
- paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
- 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
- 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.
- part song — a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.
- parthenon — the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- partition — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patrimony — an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors.
- patrolman — a police officer who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- patronage — the financial support or business provided to a store, hotel, or the like, by customers, clients, or paying guests.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- 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.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- perforant — perforating; esp (of blood vessels) perforating other anatomical structures
- peronista — Peronist.
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phanotron — a hot-cathode gas diode.
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- ponderate — deliberate or intentional
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- 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.
- portolano — 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.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- probation — the act of testing.
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- pronation — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the surface of the palm is facing downward or toward the back (opposed to supination).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proration — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.