9-letter words containing t, a, i, e, p
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- peltation — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peronista — Peronist.
- pertained — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- petaurine — relating to a petaurist
- petechiae — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
- petillant — slightly sparkling.
- petiolate — having a petiole or peduncle.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- petticoat — slip worn under a skirt
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- phenacite — a rare vitreous mineral, beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring in crystals, sometimes used as a gem.
- phenakite — a very hard, glassy, rhombohedral mineral, Be2SiO4, of various colors, sometimes used as a gem; beryllium silicate
- philately — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phthalein — any of a group of compounds formed by treating phthalic anhydride with phenols, from which certain important dyes are derived.
- pia mater — the delicate, fibrous, and highly vascular membrane forming the innermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater.
- piagetian — of or relating to the theories developed by Jean Piaget.
- pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
- pie plant — rhubarb
- pie plate — a shallow metal or glass dish with sloping sides, used for cooking a pie
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pignorate — to pledge or pawn
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pin plate — a bearing plate having a projection for fixing into masonry.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- pintadera — a decorative stamp, usually made of clay, found in the Neolithic of the E Mediterranean and in many American cultures
- pintailed — having a tapered tail
- piracetam — a drug used to improve cognitive powers and memory, used to treat stroke victims and sufferers of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, etc
- piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pit grave — a shallow grave hollowed out of a bed of rock or the floor of a tholos.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- pixelated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- placative — placatory.