9-letter words containing p, a, r, e
- pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- pipe rack — a steel framed structure that pipes (used to drill for oil, etc) are stacked on for storage
- pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
- pis aller — the last resort or the final resource.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- plansheer — plancer.
- plastered — drunk.
- plasterer — builder or decorator who applies plaster
- platemark — hallmark.
- plateware — household dishes, especially ones made of or plated with gold or silver.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plein-air — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- poetaster — an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- ponderate — deliberate or intentional
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- poor rate — a rate or tax levied by parishes for the relief or support of the poor
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- porporate — wearing purple
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portatile — portable
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- portrayer — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.