9-letter words containing p, r, a, i, s, e
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- dispraise — to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
- disrepair — the condition of needing repair; an impaired or neglected state.
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- earpieces — Plural form of earpiece.
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- eparchies — Plural form of eparchy.
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- epigraphs — Plural form of epigraph.
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epimerase — an enzyme that catalyses the interconversion of epimers
- escarping — Present participle of escarp.
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- esotropia — A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.
- espaliers — Plural form of espalier.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- exosporia — exospores
- firescape — to arrange the features of (a garden or other area of land) in a way that inhibits the spread of fire, for example by increasing the amount of open space and cultivating fire-resistant plants
- firetraps — Plural form of firetrap.
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- paintress — a female painter
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- panderism — the work of a pander
- parcheesi — a modern board game derived from the ancient game of pachisi
- parecious — paroicous.
- parenesis — exhortation; admonition
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parrhesia — boldness or frankness of speech; the act of asking forgiveness for speaking in such a way
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.