9-letter words containing p, o, e, r
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- phonopore — a device that conveys sound using electrical impulses along telegraph lines
- phosphore — the morning star, especially Venus.
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- picocurie — a trillionth of a curie, which is a unit of radioactivity
- picometer — one trillionth of a meter
- picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- pied noir — an Algerian-born French person.
- piepowder — a travelling market trader, merchant or similar traveller
- pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pilloried — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
- pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
- pioneered — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- pipe roll — an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- pirouette — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- 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.
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- poetaster — an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- pokeberry — the berry of the pokeweed.
- pokerwork — the art of decorating wood or leather by burning a design with a heated metal point; pyrography
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- polyester — Chemistry. a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the group –COO–, usually formed by polymerizing a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, plastics, and textile fibers.
- polyether — a polymeric ether.
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls