9-letter words containing p, r, i, n, t
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pertinent — pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant: pertinent details.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- petri net — (parallel, simulation) A directed, bipartite graph in which nodes are either "places" (represented by circles) or "transitions" (represented by rectangles), invented by Carl Adam Petri. A Petri net is marked by placing "tokens" on places. When all the places with arcs to a transition (its input places) have a token, the transition "fires", removing a token from each input place and adding a token to each place pointed to by the transition (its output places). Petri nets are used to model concurrent systems, particularly network protocols. Variants on the basic idea include the coloured Petri Net, Time Petri Net, Timed Petri Net, Stochastic Petri Net, and Predicate Transition Net.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- 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)
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- phrenetic — frenetic.
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- picturing — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pink root — a disease of onions and other plants, characterized by pink, withered roots, caused by a fungus, Pyrenochaeta terrestris.
- pinkerton — Allan, 1819–84, U.S. detective, born in Scotland.
- pinsetter — a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- pinstripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pituitrin — an aqueous extract of the pituitary glands of cattle which contains the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- pontonier — an officer or soldier in charge of bridge equipment or the construction of pontoon bridges.
- portinari — Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- portioner — a person who receives or holds a portion, or who divides something into portions.
- portofino — a village in NW Italy, SE of Genoa: tourist resort.
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pottering — putter1 .
- pottinger — an apothecary
- pour into — If you pour money or supplies into an activity or organization, or if it pours in, a lot of money or supplies are given in order to do the activity or help the organization.
- pourpoint — a stuffed and quilted doublet worn by men from the 14th to 17th centuries.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- prenotion — a preconception.
- prentices — a male given name.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preoption — the right of first choice
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.