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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.
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