9-letter words containing p, e, t, r, o
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- porporate — wearing purple
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portatile — portable
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- porteress — portress.
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- porticoed — provided with a portico or porticoes.
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- portiered — having a portiere, a curtain hanging across a doorway
- portieres — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- portioner — a person who receives or holds a portion, or who divides something into portions.
- portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
- portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- portrayer — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- portreeve — the reeve of a port
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- postrorse — directed backward.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- pothecary — apothecary.
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- potholder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- pothunter — a person who hunts for food or profit, ignoring the rules of sport.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- potometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of water that a plant loses through transpiration, consisting of a sealed vessel of water with a cutting inserted in such a way that moisture can escape only through absorption and transpiration.
- potteries — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- poudrette — a fertilizer made from dried night soil mixed with other substances, as gypsum and charcoal.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- power hit — (Or "power glitch") A sudden increase (spike) or decrease (drop-out) in the mains electricity supply. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to computers. Computers and other electronic equipment should really include some kind of over-voltage protection in its mains input to prevent such damamge.
- power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
- powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- pre-quote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.