9-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- orthopnea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- orthopter — ornithopter
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outporter — an inhabitant or native of a Newfoundland outport
- outpoured — Simple past tense and past participle of outpour.
- outpourer — a person who pours something out
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- outpursue — to pursue farther than
- outrooper — an auctioneer
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overplant — to plant more than is necessary or possible to sustain
- overprint — Printing. to print additional material or another color on a form or sheet previously printed.
- overslept — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- overtrump — to play a trump higher than (one previously played to the trick)
- p/e ratio — price-to-earnings ratio
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- paintress — a female painter
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.
- panetiere — a small, decorative livery cupboard, made especially in Provence in the 18th century.
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- paper cut — tiny nick caused by sharp paper
- paper-net — snail mail
- papeterie — a box for holding stationery, especially an ornamental one.
- par-three — of, relating to, or noting a small-scale golf course, usually having 18 holes of 150 yards (137 meters) in length from tee to cup on 7 to 40 acres (3 to 16 hectares) of land.
- parachute — a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- paraclete — an advocate or intercessor.
- parameter — formal argument
- parapente — the form of parachute used in this sport
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- pardalote — any of several tiny, short-tailed Australian songbirds of the genus Pardalotus, having short bills and most having brilliant plumage with gemlike specks on the dark upper parts.
- parentage — derivation or descent from parents or ancestors; birth, origin, or lineage: a man of distinguished parentage.
- parentese — baby talk (def 2).
- parenting — a father or a mother.
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- pargeting — any of various plasters or roughcasts for covering walls or other surfaces, especially a mortar of lime, hair, and cow dung for lining chimney flues.
- pargetter — plasterer
- parhypate — a note in ancient Greek music, the second lowest note in the two lowest tetrachords
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parlement — parliament.
- parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
- parokheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
- parquetry — mosaic work of wood used for floors, wainscoting, etc.; marquetry.
- parrakeet — parakeet.