9-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attempter — One who attempts.
- auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
- azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
- b-picture — B-movie.
- bear trap — snare to catch bears
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- buprestid — any beetle of the mainly tropical family Buprestidae, the adults of which are brilliantly coloured and the larvae of which bore into and cause damage to trees, roots, etc
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- cape cart — a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle sometimes with a canvas hood
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carpenter — A carpenter is a person whose job is making and repairing wooden things.
- carpentry — Carpentry is the activity of making and repairing wooden things.
- carpetbag — a travelling bag originally made of carpeting
- carpeting — You use carpeting to refer to a carpet, or to the type of material that is used to make carpets.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- catnapper — a person who catnaps
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line
- compacter — Comparative form of compact.
- completer — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- comported — Simple past tense and past participle of comport.
- composter — a bin or other container used to turn garden and kitchen waste into compost
- compotier — a dish for holding compote
- computers — Plural form of computer.