9-letter words containing p, e, r, s, i
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- overpoise — the action of weighing down on something
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- paintress — a female painter
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- panderism — the work of a pander
- parcheesi — a modern board game derived from the ancient game of pachisi
- parecious — paroicous.
- parenesis — exhortation; admonition
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parrhesia — boldness or frankness of speech; the act of asking forgiveness for speaking in such a way
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- paruresis — a psychological inability to urinate in the presence of others
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- patissier — a person who makes pastries; a pastry chef
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pay raise — an increase in wages or salary
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- pelorised — affected by peloria
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- pepperish — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- perceives — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periapsis — the closest point to a central body reached by a body in orbit
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- perilless — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions