9-letter words containing p, e, r, s
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jespersen — (Jens) Otto (Harry) [yens ot-oh hahr-ee] /yɛns ˈɒt oʊ ˈhɑr i/ (Show IPA), 1860–1943, Danish philologist.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- liripipes — Plural form of liripipe.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis
- merperson — A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesomorph — a person of the mesomorphic type.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
- misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
- misprized — Simple past tense and past participle of misprize.
- misprizer — a despiser or scorner
- misprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- moreporks — Plural form of morepork.
- morphemes — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- nanopores — Plural form of nanopore.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.