9-letter words containing p, e, t, i
- pipetting — to measure or transfer a quantity of a liquid with a pipette.
- piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
- pirouette — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- pit viper — any of numerous venomous snakes of the family Crotalidae, of the New World, Asia, and the Malay Archipelago, as the rattlesnake, water moccasin, and copperhead, having a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head between the eye and nostril.
- pitchbend — an electronic device that enables a player to bend the pitch of a note being sounded on a synthesizer, usually with a pitch wheel, strip, or lever
- pitchpole — (of a boat) to capsize end over end, as in heavy surf.
- pithecoid — belonging or pertaining to the genus Pithecia and related genera, including the saki monkeys.
- pithiness — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- pixelated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- placative — placatory.
- placentia — a town in S California.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platinate — Chemistry. a salt of platinic acid.
- platinize — to coat or plate with metallic platinum.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- platonize — to follow or adopt the doctrines of Plato.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- plenitude — fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plot line — Usually, plot lines. dialogue that advances the plot, as in a play or motion-picture script.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- pocketing — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- poeticism — a poetic expression that has become hackneyed, forced, or artificial.
- poeticize — to make (thoughts, feelings, etc.) poetic; express in poetry.
- poeticule — an inferior poet
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out