9-letter words containing p, r, o, t, e, c
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- procreate — to beget or generate (offspring).
- 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.
- 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.
- prorector — a substitute, or assistant, university rector
- 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.
- 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.
- proteomic — relating to a proteome
- prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- receiptor — a person who receipts.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- reproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rotoscope — a projection device that allows images from live-action films to be traced to create an animated sequence
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- susceptor — a piece of metallic film on a package of microwaveable food that helps cook and brown the food by producing and concentrating energy on the food's outer surface.
- turcopole — during the Crusades, a type of lightly armed and low-ranking soldier belonging to the Order of St John of Jerusalem, used mainly as mounted archers and scouts
- zoetropic — of or relating to a zoetrope