9-letter words containing t, i, p, a
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- privative — causing, or tending to cause, deprivation.
- privatize — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privocrat — (esp in neo-conservative thought) a person who is not in favour of relinquishing individual freedoms in order to give the state more powers to combat terrorism
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- proactive — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probation — the act of testing.
- probative — serving or designed for testing or trial.
- procacity — insolence
- profanity — the quality of being profane; irreverence.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- pronation — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the surface of the palm is facing downward or toward the back (opposed to supination).
- prorating — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- proration — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- prostasis — (in a classical temple) a pronaos or prostas before a cella.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psamtik i — king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- ptarmigan — any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, of mountainous and cold northern regions, having feathered feet.
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- pugnacity — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- punctatim — point for point.
- pupillate — having a spot of a different colour in the middle
- purgation — the act of purging.
- purgative — purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast