9-letter words containing p, e, r, i, o, n
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- n'importe — no matter
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nullipore — any of the coralline algae with a crustlike plant body.
- obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).
- open fire — start shooting
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overprint — Printing. to print additional material or another color on a form or sheet previously printed.
- overripen — to make or become too ripe
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
- parvoline — any of various isomeric ptomaines found in liquid derived from decaying animal matter or bituminous coals
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- penniform — shaped like a feather; (esp of muscles) having fibres attached to the tendon in a feather-like fashion
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- pepperoni — a highly seasoned, hard sausage of beef and pork.
- perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- 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.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- 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)
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pied noir — an Algerian-born French person.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
- pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
- pioneered — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- pontonier — an officer or soldier in charge of bridge equipment or the construction of pontoon bridges.