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9-letter words containing eri

  • nurseries — Plural form of nursery.
  • offerings — Plural form of offering.
  • orderings — Plural form of ordering.
  • orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
  • osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
  • overindex — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
  • overinked — printed using too much ink
  • overissue — an excessive issue of stocks or bonds, as in excess of the needs of the business or in excess of charter authorization.
  • oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
  • ozocerite — a waxlike mineral resin; mineral wax.
  • pandering — a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
  • panderism — the work of a pander
  • papeterie — a box for holding stationery, especially an ornamental one.
  • passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
  • pattering — to talk glibly or rapidly, especially with little regard to meaning; chatter.
  • pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
  • pauperize — to make a pauper of: His extravagance pauperized him.
  • 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.
  • periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
  • periander — died 585 b.c, tyrant of Corinth.
  • periapsis — the closest point to a central body reached by a body in orbit
  • periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
  • peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
  • peribonca — a river in central Quebec, Canada, flowing S to Lake St. John. 280 miles (451 km) long.
  • periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
  • periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
  • pericline — a variety of albite occurring in large, white opaque crystals.
  • pericopae — a selection or extract from a book.
  • pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
  • peridinia — genus of flagellate organisms
  • peridotic — of, relating to, or containing peridot
  • peridrome — (in Classical architecture) a colonnaded walkway running round a building, esp around a Classical temple
  • périgueux — a river in SW France, flowing W to the Gironde estuary. 300 miles (485 km) long.
  • perihelia — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
  • perikarya — parts of nerve cells that contain the nuclei
  • perilless — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
  • perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • perimeter — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • perimetry — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
  • perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
  • perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
  • periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
  • periodide — an iodide with the maximum proportion of iodine.
  • periodize — to divide (a portion of time) into periods
  • peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
  • periphery — the external boundary of any surface or area.
  • periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
  • periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
  • periproct — (in certain echinoids) that part of the body surface bordering the anus.
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