9-letter words containing p, r, e, c
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- eurocorps — a multinational army corps based in Strasbourg and participated in by mainly EU countries
- eurocreep — the gradual introduction of the euro into use in Britain
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- excerpted — Consisting of excerpts.
- excerpter — a person who excerpts (parts or passages from a book, play, etc)
- excerptor — One who makes excerpts.
- excerptum — (from Latin) an excerpt
- exophoric — Relating to, or exhibiting, exophora.
- exotropic — (of an eye) turning outwards
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- far piece — a considerable distance: They moved a far piece from here.
- figpecker — A bird, the Orphean warbler, Sylvia hortensis.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- 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
- force cup — plunger (def 3).
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- framepack — a backpack attached to a supporting frame of usually lightweight metal.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- geotropic — of, relating to, or exhibiting geotropism.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hairpiece — a toupee.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- hypercube — A geometric figure in four or more dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions.
- hyperemic — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.
- hyperoxic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hyperoxia.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hyporheic — Denoting an area or ecosystem beneath the bed of a river or stream that is saturated with water and that supports invertebrate fauna which play a role in the larger ecosystem.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.