9-letter words containing p, e, n
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- inspirers — Plural form of inspirer.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- 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.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
- interpone — to interpose
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- interpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- ip number — internet address
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- jespersen — (Jens) Otto (Harry) [yens ot-oh hahr-ee] /yɛns ˈɒt oʊ ˈhɑr i/ (Show IPA), 1860–1943, Danish philologist.
- jet plane — an airplane moved by jet propulsion.
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- jumpiness — The state of being jumpy.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnapped — a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- kidnappee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- kippering — Present participle of kipper.