9-letter words containing p, i, e, c, r
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- preconize — to proclaim or commend publicly.
- precrisis — occurring or existing before a crisis; of or pertaining to the period preceding a crisis
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- preexilic — of that period of Jewish history preceding the Babylonian Exile (6th cent. b.c.)
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescious — prescient
- prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescript — prescribed.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- price cut — discount, lowering of costs
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- priceless — having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
- priciness — the state of being pricey
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- princedom — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- principle — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- pritchett — Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) [sawd-n] /ˈsɔd n/ (Show IPA), 1900–97, English literary critic, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.
- 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.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procerity — tallness
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolicide — the killing of one's child.
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- proteomic — relating to a proteome
- prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- prurience — having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
- pyodermic — relating to a skin disease characterized by the production of pus