9-letter words containing p, e, s, a
- pre-essay — a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
- pre-lease — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- preassure — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- precrease — to provide (e.g. clothing, paper for origami) with a crease or creases in advance
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatess — a female prelate
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- presagers — a presentiment or foreboding.
- presearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- preshaped — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- presidial — presidential
- presignal — to signal in advance
- pressable — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- pressmark — a symbol indicating the location of a book in the library.
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primaries — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- procellas — pucellas.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- pustulate — to cause to form pustules.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.