9-letter words containing p, a, r, t, n
- permanent — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- peronista — Peronist.
- 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.
- 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)
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- 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
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- planetary — of, relating to, or resembling a planet or the planets.
- 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.
- praeneste — ancient name of Palestrina.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- pre-enact — to enact beforehand
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preattune — to attune in advance or beforehand
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- prepatent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- print bar — a mechanism in a printer that has the template of characters to be printed.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printback — an enlarged print from a microfilm copy.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- 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.
- protanope — a person diagnosed with protanopia