9-letter words containing p, r, i, s
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disspirit — dispirit.
- 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.
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drillship — a ship equipped with a drill rig and engaged in offshore oil and gas exploration, oceanographic research, etc.
- drippings — Plural form of dripping.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drop-ship — to ship (goods) as a drop shipment: The books will be drop-shipped by the publisher to your home.
- dropkicks — Plural form of dropkick.
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dyspraxia — inability to perform coordinated movements.
- dyspraxic — Of or pertaining to dyspraxia.
- earpieces — Plural form of earpiece.
- eavesdrip — the falling or dripping of rainwater from the eaves of a building
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- enciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encipher.
- entropies — Plural form of entropy.
- eparchies — Plural form of eparchy.
- ephemeris — A table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.
- epicrisis — a secondary crisis occurring in the course of a disease
- epicurism — Epicureanism.
- epidaurus — an ancient port in Greece, in the NE Peloponnese, in Argolis on the Saronic Gulf
- epidermis — The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular.
- epidurals — Plural form of epidural.
- epigraphs — Plural form of epigraph.
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epimerase — an enzyme that catalyses the interconversion of epimers
- epimerism — optical isomerism in which isomers (epimers) can form about asymmetric atoms within the molecule, esp in carbohydrates
- epistoler — One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- escarping — Present participle of escarp.
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- esotropia — A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.
- esotropic — (of an eye) turning inwards
- espaliers — Plural form of espalier.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euripides — ?480–406 bc, Greek tragic dramatist. His plays, 18 of which are extant, include Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigeneia in Aulis, and Bacchae
- exosporia — exospores
- expertise — Expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
- expertism — the quality of being an expert
- expositor — A person or thing that explains complicated ideas or theories.
- filmstrip — a length of film containing a series of related transparencies for projection on a screen.