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9-letter words containing p, o, e, r

  • 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.
  • poudreuse — a small toilet table of the 18th century.
  • poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
  • pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
  • pourboire — a gratuity; tip.
  • powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
  • powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
  • 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 mac — (computer)   Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
  • power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
  • power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
  • power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
  • powerboat — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerless — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • poweropen — The PowerOpen Association defines and promotes the PowerOpen Environment (POE).
  • powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
  • praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
  • praenomen — the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
  • pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
  • pre-loved — previously used or owned; secondhand.
  • pre-model — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • pre-offer — to present for acceptance or rejection; proffer: He offered me a cigarette.
  • pre-order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • pre-owned — previously owned; used; secondhand: a sale of preowned furs.
  • pre-quote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
  • pre-roman — of or relating to the ancient or modern city of Rome, or to its inhabitants and their customs and culture: Roman restaurants.
  • preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
  • 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.
  • prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
  • precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
  • precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
  • preceptor — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • prechoose — to choose in advance
  • prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
  • precision — the state or quality of being precise.
  • precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
  • precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
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