9-letter words containing p, c, r
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- prowl car — squad car.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- prurience — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- pucker up — purse your lips to kiss sb
- puckerood — ruined; exhausted
- pull cord — a cord attached to a blind, light switch, appliance, curtain etc which is pulled to operate it
- punk rock — a type of rock-'n'-roll, reaching its peak in the late 1970s and characterized by loud, insistent music and abusive or violent protest lyrics, and whose performers and followers are distinguished by extremes of dress and socially defiant behavior.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- puromycin — a substance with antibiotic properties, obtained from certain species of Streptomyces
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- purulence — pus.
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pyodermic — relating to a skin disease characterized by the production of pus
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- pyroceram — a strong heat-resistant glass which has been heat-treated so that it is made up of microscopic crystalline domains
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyrogenic — producing or produced by heat or fever.
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- pyroscope — an instrument for measuring the temperature of a heat source
- pyroxylic — resulting from the action of fire on wood
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- ragpicker — a person who picks up rags and other waste material from the streets, refuse heaps, etc., for a livelihood.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- re-carpet — to replace the existing carpet (in a room or office, etc)
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recapture — to capture again; recover by capture; retake.
- receipted — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- receiptor — a person who receipts.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recipient — a person or thing that receives; receiver: the recipient of a prize.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- recompile — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
- recompose — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- reinspect — to inspect or examine again
- repackage — to package again or afresh, as in a different style, design, or size: The soap has been repackaged to be more eye-catching.
- repechage — (in cycling and rowing) a last-chance qualifying heat in which the runners-up in earlier heats race each other, with the winner advancing to the finals.
- repercuss — to have or cause repercussions
- replacing — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.