9-letter words containing p, r, e, t, a
- departeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'depart'.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- depredate — to plunder or destroy; pillage
- depurated — Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- emplaster — a plaster
- encapture — (transitive) To capture.
- enrapture — Give intense pleasure or joy to.
- entrapped — Simple past tense and past participle of entrap.
- entrapper — One who, or that which, entraps.
- epeolatry — the worship of words
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epicentra — epicentres
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epitapher — one who writes epitaphs
- epuration — purification
- esotropia — A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.
- esperanto — Esperanto is an invented language which consists of parts of several European languages, and which was designed to help people from different countries communicate with each other.
- estrapade — The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- europanet — A combination of pan-European backbone services run by DANTE.
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- evaporate — Turn from liquid into vapor.
- evaporite — A natural salt or mineral deposit left after the evaporation of a body of water.
- exit ramp — a short roadway by which vehicles may leave a major highway
- exotropia — (medicine) A form of strabismus in which the eyes deviate outwards.
- expatriot — Misspelling of expatriate.
- expiatory — Of or pertaining to expiation.
- explorate — (obsolete) To explore.
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- extirpate — Root out and destroy completely.
- extrapate — Misspelling of extirpate.
- extrapose — to move a word or words to the end of, or outside, a clause or sentence without altering its sense
- extripate — Misspelling of extirpate.
- extropian — Of, or relating to extropy.