9-letter words containing ep
- ninepenny — noting a nail 2.75 inches (7 cm) long. Symbol: 9d.
- nosepiece — the part of a frame for eyeglasses that passes over the bridge of the nose.
- notepaper — writing paper, especially that used in writing notes or personal correspondence and usually less than 8½ × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm) in size.
- obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).
- of repute — A person or thing of repute or of high repute is respected and known to be good.
- orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
- outsleeps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsleep.
- oversleep — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- overslept — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- passepied — a lively dance in triple meter popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- peep show — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peep-hole — a small hole or opening through which to peep or look, as in a door.
- peep-show — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peneplain — an area reduced almost to a plain by erosion.
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- peperomia — any of numerous tropical and subtropical plants belonging to the genus Peperomia, of the pepper family, cultivated as houseplants for their ornamental foliage.
- pepperbox — a small box with perforations in the top, for sprinkling pepper.
- peppering — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- pepperish — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- pepperoni — a highly seasoned, hard sausage of beef and pork.
- pepperpot — A pepperpot is a small container with holes in the top, used for shaking pepper onto food.
- peppiness — energetic; vigorous; lively.
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- pepticity — good digestion
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- peptonize — to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
- piepowder — a travelling market trader, merchant or similar traveller
- pikeperch — any of several pikelike fishes of the perch family, especially the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- preceptor — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- prepacked — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.
- prepatent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- preplaced — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- prepollex — a rudimentary additional digit on the preaxial side of the thumb of certain amphibians and mammals.
- prepostor — praepostor.
- prepotent — preeminent in power, authority, or influence; predominant: a prepotent name in the oil business.
- prepueblo — belonging to the period before the Pueblo Indians
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- prolepses — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- quadricep — Quadriceps.
- quickstep — (formerly) a lively step used in marching.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- ratepayer — a person who pays a regular charge for the use of a public utility, as gas or electricity, usually based on the quantity consumed.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- receptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- rem sleep — a recurrent period of sleep, typically totaling about two hours a night, during which most dreaming occurs as the eyes move under closed lids and the skeletal muscles are deeply relaxed.