9-letter words containing p, e, r, n
- eton crop — a short mannish hairstyle worn by women in the 1920s
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- experient — A person who experiences something.
- explainer — Agent noun of explain; one who explains.
- exploring — The action of the verb explore.
- exporting — Present participle of export.
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- extropian — Of, or relating to extropy.
- eyeopener — Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- fiber pen — felt-tip pen.
- fingertip — the tip or end of a finger.
- fire pink — a plant, Silene virginica, of the pink family, having loose clusters of brilliant scarlet flowers.
- flyperson — (theatre) Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
- foreplane — (nautical, aeronautics) A relatively flat surface located well forward of a vehicle's center of gravity used for stability and, when movable, used for steering and attitude control; common on submarines, also used on surface ships and aircraft.
- forepoint — to predetermine or indicate in advance
- forespent — forspent.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourpenny — Carpentry. noting a nail 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) long. noting certain fine nails 1.375 inches (3.5 cm) long. Symbol: 4d.
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- gang rape — If a woman is gang raped, several men force her to have sex with them.
- gang-rape — to force to have sexual intercourse with several persons.
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- grand pre — a village in central Nova Scotia, on Minas Basin: locale of Longfellow's Evangeline.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grapevine — a town in N Texas.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- gray pine — jack pine.
- greenspan — Alan, born 1926, U.S. economist: chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 1987–2006.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hyperfine — Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort