9-letter words containing p, e, r, i
- aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- b-picture — B-movie.
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- becripple — to make or cause to become crippled.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- bid price — The bid price of a particular stock or share is the price that investors are willing to pay for it.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- calipered — Simple past tense and past participle of caliper.
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- cheruping — Present participle of cherup.
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chippered — to chirp or twitter.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chirruped — Simple past tense and past participle of chirrup.
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- ciphering — calculating
- cirripede — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, including the barnacles, the adults of which are sessile or parasitic
- cirripeds — Plural form of cirriped.
- clerkship — The position or status of a clerk, especially in the legal profession.
- compering — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- compotier — a dish for holding compote
- comprised — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprise.
- comprized — comprise.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.