9-letter words containing p, c, r
- hypocracy — Misspelling of hypocrisy.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- ic-prolog — Clark & McCabe, Imperial College 1979. Logic language with coroutining.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- inotropic — influencing the contractility of muscular tissue.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- isocarpic — having carpels equal in number to the other floral parts.
- isotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- job corps — an organization within the Department of Labor that operates rural conservation camps and urban training centers for poor youths.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microcopy — a microphotographic copy of a printed page or the like, as in microfilm or microfiche.
- micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- micropump — a tiny pump implanted under the skin for the timed administration of medication.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.