9-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- dipterist — an expert on flies belonging to the order Diptera
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- discerped — Simple past tense and past participle of discerp.
- disparage — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- dispeller — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispenser — a person or thing that dispenses.
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
- dispersed — Simple past tense and past participle of disperse.
- disperser — (chemistry) a substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
- disperses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disperse.
- displacer — a person or thing that displaces.
- displayer — One who, or that which, displays.
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- dispraise — to speak of as undeserving or unworthy; censure; disparage.
- disprefer — (transitive, chiefly, linguistics) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.
- disprized — to hold in small esteem; disdain.
- disproove — Obsolete form of disprove.
- disproved — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- disprover — One who disproves.
- disproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disprove.
- dispursed — Simple past tense and past participle of dispurse.
- dispurvey — to strip of equipment or provisions
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disrepair — the condition of needing repair; an impaired or neglected state.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- diterpene — (chemistry) any terpene formed from four isoprene units, and having twenty carbon atoms; includes vitamin A, the gibberellins, and various biologically active lactones such as quassin.
- doorpiece — an architecturally treated doorframe.
- drainpipe — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- drillpipe — A drillpipe is a piece of tubular steel in a well, used for lowering and raising equipment and supplying drilling mud.
- drip feed — intravenous feeding.
- drip-feed — intravenous feeding.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- earpieces — Plural form of earpiece.
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- ectropion — A condition, typically a consequence of advanced age, in which the eyelid is turned outward away from the eyeball.
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.