9-letter words containing eri
- periptery — a peripteral building.
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perisperm — the nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo in certain seeds, and developing from the nucellus of the ovule
- perispore — a membrane surrounding a spore.
- peristeri — a city in SE Greece, constituting part of Greater Athens.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- pickering — Edward Charles, 1846–1919, and his brother, William Henry, 1858–1938, U.S. astronomers.
- pieridine — belonging or pertaining to the Pieridae, a family of butterflies comprising the whites, sulfurs, etc.
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- pomoerium — the space around a town within the city walls
- pondering — to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate (often followed by over or upon).
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- potteries — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- pottering — putter1 .
- powdering — a thin sprinkling of something on a surface
- preterist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled. Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- preterite — past (def 12).
- procerity — tallness
- 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
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- puerility — the state or quality of being a child.
- puerperia — periods of around six weeks following childbirths when uteruses return to their normal size and shape
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pulverize — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- puttering — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- quaeritur — the question is asked
- quakerism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Quakers.
- quavering — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- querimony — a complaint
- quivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- quiverish — given to quivering, tremulous
- rancheria — a family household unit or settlement.
- rancherie — an Indian village or settlement, especially one located on a reserve.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship