9-letter words containing s, t, o, r, e
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- portieres — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- 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
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- postrorse — directed backward.
- 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.
- pour test — any test for determining the pour point of a substance.
- power set — the collection of all subsets of a given set.
- prepostor — praepostor.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- proof set — a set of coins (proof coins), one of each denomination, minted annually from highly polished metal on special dies, issued for collectors rather than for circulation
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- 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.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prospects — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- proteoses — any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
- protested — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protester — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protestor — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- quaestors — Plural form of quaestor.
- quartzose — one of the commonest minerals, silicon dioxide, SiO 2 , having many varieties that differ in color, luster, etc., and occurring either in masses (as agate, bloodstone, chalcedony, jasper, etc.) or in crystals (as rock crystal, amethyst, citrine, etc.): the chief constituent of sand and sandstone, and an important constituent of many other rocks. It is piezoelectric and used to control the frequencies of radio transmitters.
- radio set — an apparatus that receives radio signals
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recordist — Also called sound recordist. Movies. the person in charge of sound recording on a film set. Compare mixer.
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- rectoress — a female rector
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- reed stop — a set of reed pipes in a pipe organ.
- reformist — a person who advocates or practices reform; reformer.