9-letter words containing t, p, i, e, c
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- 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.
- prescript — prescribed.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- price cut — discount, lowering of costs
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- princeton — a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.
- pritchett — Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) [sawd-n] /ˈsɔd n/ (Show IPA), 1900–97, English literary critic, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.
- 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.
- procerity — tallness
- procident — relating to a prolapse
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- 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.
- proteomic — relating to a proteome
- prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- receipted — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- receiptor — a person who receipts.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- recipient — a person or thing that receives; receiver: the recipient of a prize.
- reinspect — to inspect or examine again
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scripters — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
- septicity — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype