9-letter words containing p, r, o, c, t
- post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- pothecary — apothecary.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- precatory — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures.
- precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
- preceptor — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- prick out — to transplant (seedlings) as from seed pans to shallow boxes
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- 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.
- probiotic — a usually dairy food or a dietary supplement containing live bacteria that replace or add to the beneficial bacteria normally present in the gastrointestinal tract.
- procacity — insolence
- procerity — tallness
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
- proctitis — inflammation of the rectum and anus.
- proctodea — parts of the anus
- proctored — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- projected — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- projector — an apparatus for throwing an image on a screen, as a motion-picture projector or magic lantern.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proptotic — the forward displacement of an organ.
- prorector — a substitute, or assistant, university rector
- proscript — a proscription or prohibition
- prosected — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- prosector — a person who dissects cadavers for the illustration of anatomical lectures or the like.
- prosecute — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- prospects — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protected — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.
- protectee — a person, as a head of state, for whom official protection is provided.
- protecter — protector.
- protector — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.