9-letter words containing p, r, e, o, s, t
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potteries — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
- prepostor — praepostor.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prosected — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prosector — a person who dissects cadavers for the illustration of anatomical lectures or the like.
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospects — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- proteoses — any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
- protested — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protester — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protestor — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- reed stop — a set of reed pipes in a pipe organ.
- repositor — any surgical instrument used for correcting the position of displaced organs or bones
- rest stop — a stop made, as during a motor trip, to allow passengers to stretch their legs, use rest rooms, get refreshments, etc.
- rotoscope — a projection device that allows images from live-action films to be traced to create an animated sequence
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- septiform — sevenfold
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportless — without any sport
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sportster — a sports car.