9-letter words containing p, i, r, o
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
- avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- boat trip — a trip in a boat
- bupropion — an antidepressant drug used to help people stop smoking
- capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- capriform — resembling a goat
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- carpaccio — an Italian dish of thin slices of raw meat or fish
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipproof — resistant to chipping.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- comparing — Present participle of compare.
- compering — a host, master of ceremonies, or the like, especially of a stage revue or television program.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- compotier — a dish for holding compote
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprised — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprise.
- comprized — comprise.
- compromis — a formal document, executed in common by nations submitting a dispute to arbitration, that defines the matter at issue, the rules of procedure and the powers of the arbitral tribunal, and the principles for determining the award.
- conscript — A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
- conspired — Make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act.
- conspirer — to agree together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, evil, or illegal: They conspired to kill the king.
- conspires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conspire.
- coopering — Present participle of cooper.
- cooperite — a mineral, sulfide and arsenide of platinum, occurring in igneous rocks in the form of steel-gray crystals.