9-letter words containing p, e, n
- 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
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- 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.
- pericline — a variety of albite occurring in large, white opaque crystals.
- 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
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perkiness — jaunty; cheerful; brisk; pert.
- 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.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- perpignan — a department in S France. 1600 sq. mi. (4145 sq. km). Capital: Perpignan.
- persienne — a kind of calico that is printed with a pattern, or a material that resembles this
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- 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.).
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- personnel — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pertinent — pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant: pertinent details.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- pet owner — a person who owns a pet
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- peter pan — the hero of Sir James M. Barrie's play about a boy who never grew up.
- pethidine — a white crystalline water-soluble drug used as an analgesic. Formula: C15H21NO2.HCl
- petillant — slightly sparkling.
- petnapper — a person who steals a pet for ransom or for resale
- petri net — (parallel, simulation) A directed, bipartite graph in which nodes are either "places" (represented by circles) or "transitions" (represented by rectangles), invented by Carl Adam Petri. A Petri net is marked by placing "tokens" on places. When all the places with arcs to a transition (its input places) have a token, the transition "fires", removing a token from each input place and adding a token to each place pointed to by the transition (its output places). Petri nets are used to model concurrent systems, particularly network protocols. Variants on the basic idea include the coloured Petri Net, Time Petri Net, Timed Petri Net, Stochastic Petri Net, and Predicate Transition Net.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- pett scan — PET scan
- petulance — moodiness, irritability
- phaeacian — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- phagedena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phalanges — a plural of phalanx.