9-letter words containing o, p, s, e, r
- power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
- powerless — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
- prechoose — to choose in advance
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- prehensor — a part that grasps
- preimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusory — introductory.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prepostor — praepostor.
- presbyope — a person with presbyopia
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- prescious — prescient
- prescored — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- press box — a press section, especially at a sports event.
- pressroom — the room in a printing or newspaper publishing establishment where the printing presses are installed.
- presswork — the working or management of a printing press.
- 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.
- procellas — pucellas.
- processed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- processer — a person or thing that processes.
- processes — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- processor — a person or thing that processes.
- procuress — a woman who procures prostitutes.
- producers — a person who produces.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- professed — avowed; acknowledged.
- professor — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- 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.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognoses — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prolepses — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- proofless — lacking proof
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- prosected — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.