9-letter words containing p, o, r, t
- protozoon — protozoan.
- protruded — to project.
- proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prove out — to show or be shown to be satisfactory, accurate, true, etc.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- proximity — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pterygoid — wing-shaped
- pterygote — belonging or pertaining to the arthropod subclass Pterygota, comprising the winged insects.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pure tone — (in acoustic analysis) a sound composed of a simple sinusoidal waveform
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- purported — reputed or claimed; alleged: We saw no evidence of his purported wealth.
- put forth — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- puttyroot — an American orchid, Aplectrum hyemale, having a slender naked rootstock that produces a leafless stalk with a loose cluster of yellowish-brown flowers.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyoureter — distention of a ureter with pus.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyrolater — a worshipper of fire
- pyrolatry — the worship of fire
- pyrometer — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- pyrometry — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- pyrotoxin — pyrogen.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- re-export — to export again, as imported goods.
- re-import — to import back into the country of exportation.
- reappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- receiptor — a person who receipts.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- reed stop — a set of reed pipes in a pipe organ.
- reoperate — to operate again (on the same thing as a previous operation)
- repertory — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
- repletion — the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
- replotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.