9-letter words containing p, r, e, o, s
- personnel — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pesterous — having a propensity to pester, annoy, or to be trying
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- phosphore — the morning star, especially Venus.
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- 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.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- poetaster — an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polyester — Chemistry. a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the group –COO–, usually formed by polymerizing a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, plastics, and textile fibers.
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- poroscope — an instrument for measuring porosity
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- porteress — portress.
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- portieres — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- possessor — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- postrorse — directed backward.
- 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.
- poudreuse — a small toilet table of the 18th century.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.