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

  • pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pickeerer — somebody who pickeers
  • pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
  • picnicker — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
  • picocurie — a trillionth of a curie, which is a unit of radioactivity
  • picometer — one trillionth of a meter
  • picometre — a trillionth fraction of metre
  • picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • picturize — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
  • piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
  • pied noir — an Algerian-born French person.
  • piepowder — a travelling market trader, merchant or similar traveller
  • pieridine — belonging or pertaining to the Pieridae, a family of butterflies comprising the whites, sulfurs, etc.
  • pierrette — the female counterpart of a Pierrot, usually accompanying him, as in an entertainment or masquerade.
  • pifferaro — someone who plays the piffero
  • pig's ear — ear of a pig
  • pignorate — to pledge or pawn
  • pikeperch — any of several pikelike fishes of the perch family, especially the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
  • pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
  • pilferage — the act or practice of pilfering; petty theft.
  • pilfering — stealing, petty theft
  • pilgrimer — a pilgrim
  • pilloried — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
  • pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
  • pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
  • pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
  • pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
  • pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
  • pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
  • pinsetter — a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
  • pinstripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
  • pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
  • pinwrench — wrench with a projection to fit a hole
  • pioneered — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
  • pipe rack — a steel framed structure that pipes (used to drill for oil, etc) are stacked on for storage
  • pipe roll — an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries
  • pipe-rack — offering services or goods at low cost because of avoidance of expensive interior decoration, as by displaying clothing for sale on plain pipe racks.
  • pipeliner — a person or company that specializes in laying pipelines.
  • piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
  • piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
  • pirouette — a whirling about on one foot or on the points of the toes, as in ballet dancing.
  • pis aller — the last resort or the final resource.
  • piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
  • pistareen — peseta (def 2).
  • pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
  • pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
  • pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
  • pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
  • pit river — a river in N California, flowing S and W from the Modoc Plateau to the Sacramento River. 200 miles (320 km) long.
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