9-letter words containing p, r, e, i
- perceived — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perceiver — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perceives — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- perciform — a perch-like fish
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- peregrine — foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
- pereiopod — (in a crustacean) an appendage of the thorax.
- pereirine — Pharmacology. an alkaloid, C 1 9 H 2 4 ON 2 , obtained from pereira bark and formerly used as a quinine substitute.
- perennial — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perfervid — very fervent; extremely ardent; impassioned: perfervid patriotism.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periander — died 585 b.c, tyrant of Corinth.
- periapsis — the closest point to a central body reached by a body in orbit
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
- pericline — a variety of albite occurring in large, white opaque crystals.
- pericopae — a selection or extract from a book.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- peridinia — genus of flagellate organisms
- peridotic — of, relating to, or containing peridot
- peridrome — (in Classical architecture) a colonnaded walkway running round a building, esp around a Classical temple
- périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- perihelia — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
- perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
- perilless — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perimeter — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- perimetry — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- periodide — an iodide with the maximum proportion of iodine.
- periodize — to divide (a portion of time) into periods
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periphery — the external boundary of any surface or area.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- periproct — (in certain echinoids) that part of the body surface bordering the anus.
- periptery — a peripteral building.
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perisperm — the nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo in certain seeds, and developing from the nucellus of the ovule