ΛΙΜΟΣ / λιμός.

ΠΕΝΙΑ / πενία (as in cytopenia, = famine of the cells)

ΠΕΙΝΑ / πείνα.

Cytopenia is the medical term meaning low numbers of blood cells.

Evans syndrome is a rare illness in which the immune system creates antibodies that wrongly damage red blood cells, platelets, and occasionally neutrophils, which are white blood cells. This causes the body's levels of these blood cells to be unusually low (cytopenia).

Atrophy- refers to a decrease in cell size.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern ----PE-I-. That is, nine letter words with 5th letter P and 6th letter E and 8th letter I. In alphabetical order, they are:

cytopenia

logopedic

peripetia

puerperia