9-letter words containing p, r, e, v, i
- pervading — omnipresent; felt everywhere
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pervasive — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
- pick over — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- 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.
- pit viper — any of numerous venomous snakes of the family Crotalidae, of the New World, Asia, and the Malay Archipelago, as the rattlesnake, water moccasin, and copperhead, having a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head between the eye and nostril.
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- prelusive — introductory.
- prereview — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- previewer — someone who or something that gives a preview
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privateer — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privilege — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prokofiev — Sergei Sergeevich [syir-gyey syir-gye-yi-vyich] /syɪrˈgyeɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1953, Russian composer.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- promotive — tending to promote.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- quivertip — A flexible tip to a fishing rod that bends when a fish takes the bait.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- reprieval — reprieve; respite.
- reproving — If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way.
- repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
- revamping — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.