9-letter words containing p, a, r, n
- pentagram — a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- per annum — by the year; yearly.
- percaline — a fine, lightweight cotton fabric, usually finished with a gloss and dyed in one color, used especially for linings.
- percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- perchance — Literary. perhaps; maybe; possibly.
- perendale — a Romney-Cheviot crossbreed of sheep
- perennate — to survive from season to season for an indefinite number of years.
- perennial — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- perforant — perforating; esp (of blood vessels) perforating other anatomical structures
- periander — died 585 b.c, tyrant of Corinth.
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
- peridinia — genus of flagellate organisms
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- perma-tan — a permanent year-round suntan
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- permeance — the act of permeating.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- personals — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- peter pan — the hero of Sir James M. Barrie's play about a boy who never grew up.
- petnapper — a person who steals a pet for ransom or for resale
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- phanotron — a hot-cathode gas diode.
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- pharaonic — (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- philander — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- 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.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- phreaking — phone phreak.
- piano bar — a cocktail lounge featuring live piano music.
- pickaroon — to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.