9-letter words containing t, e, r, p, n
- precentor — a person who leads a church choir or congregation in singing.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- prenotion — a preconception.
- prentices — a male given name.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preoption — the right of first choice
- prepatent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- prepotent — preeminent in power, authority, or influence; predominant: a prepotent name in the oil business.
- prereturn — of the period before return
- 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.
- presented — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- presentee — a person to whom something is presented.
- presenter — a person or thing that presents.
- presently — in a little while; soon: They will be here presently.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- preteen's — Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- pretended — Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit: pretend diamonds.
- pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- prevented — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- preventer — a person or thing that prevents.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prominent — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
- proponent — a person who puts forward a proposition or proposal.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protanope — a person diagnosed with protanopia
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protogine — a gneissose granite with sericite, found in the Alps
- protonate — to provide an atom, molecule, or ion with a proton
- protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- provident — having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- prytaneum — a public building in ancient Greece, containing the symbolic hearth of the community and commonly resembling a private dwelling in plan, used as a community meeting place and as a lodging for guests of the community.
- pteridine — a yellow, crystalline, heteroaromatic compound having a bicyclic molecular structure; any substituted derivative of this, examples of which occur naturally, esp as vitamins of the B group and insect pigments. Formula: C6H4N4