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

  • inspector — a person who inspects.
  • intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
  • intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
  • jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
  • kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
  • large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
  • macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
  • macrotape — (storage)   /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
  • marchpane — marzipan.
  • mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
  • mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
  • mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
  • mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
  • mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
  • metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
  • micropore — a tiny opening, as in specialized biological filters or in the shells of some animals.
  • micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
  • microtape — (hardware, storage)   /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
  • mid-price — at a medium or average price; not particularly expensive nor particularly cheap
  • midpriced — Alternative spelling of mid-priced.
  • mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
  • misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
  • morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
  • nephritic — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
  • nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
  • neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
  • nez perce — a member of a North American Indian people of the Sahaptin family.
  • nitpicker — a person who nitpicks, especially habitually.
  • occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
  • off-price — offering or dealing in goods, especially brand-name apparel, at prices lower than those at regular retail stores or discount stores.
  • opacifier — an agent added to render something opaque
  • operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
  • opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
  • outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
  • outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
  • outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
  • overcheap — too cheap
  • overcrops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcrop.
  • overperch — to fly up to perch on
  • overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
  • overprice — to price excessively high; set too high a price on.
  • overspice — to add too much spice to
  • pacemaker — pacesetter.
  • pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • pack-year — a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year
  • packframe — a framework, usually of lightweight metal tubing, that supports a backpack on the wearer, often by curved extensions that fit over the shoulders.
  • packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
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