9-letter words containing s, p, i, r, e
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- potteries — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praiseach — a type of porridge made with oatmeal
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- precising — a concise summary.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- precrisis — occurring or existing before a crisis; of or pertaining to the period preceding a crisis
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predesign — to design beforehand or in advance
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- preimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- premisses — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescious — prescient
- prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescript — prescribed.
- presenile — pertaining to or exhibiting the characteristics of presenility; prematurely old.
- preshrink — to subject (textiles, garments, etc.) to a shrinking process before marketing to minimize subsequent shrinkage.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presidial — presidential
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- press kit — a packet of promotional materials, as background information, photographs, or samples, for distribution to the press, as at a press conference.