9-letter words containing p, o, r, t
- 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 into — If you pour money or supplies into an activity or organization, or if it pours in, a lot of money or supplies are given in order to do the activity or help the organization.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- pourparty — purparty.
- pourpoint — a stuffed and quilted doublet worn by men from the 14th to 17th centuries.
- 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.
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- 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.
- 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.
- precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
- preceptor — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatory — Zoology. preying upon other organisms for food.
- predevote — predestined, predetermined
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- prefatory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a preface: prefatory explanations.
- preformat — to format in advance
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- prenotion — a preconception.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preoption — the right of first choice
- prepostor — praepostor.
- prepotent — preeminent in power, authority, or influence; predominant: a prepotent name in the oil business.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- primitivo — a black grape grown in the Puglia region of Italy, used for making wine
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- print job — computer: batch of files to be printed
- print out — the state of being printed.
- print-out — the state of being printed.
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- pro-rated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- pro-trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.