9-letter words containing a, d, p, i, s
- redisplay — to display again
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- sand pile — a base for a footing in soft soil, made by compacting sand in a cavity left by a wooden pile.
- sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
- sapidless — lacking flavour
- sapodilla — a large evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, of tropical America, bearing an edible fruit and yielding chicle. Compare sapodilla family.
- sapphired — blue-coloured
- scaldship — the office of a scald or an ancient Scandinavian poet or bard
- self-paid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- skaldship — the office of an ancient Scandinavian poet
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- slipcased — having a slipcase
- soap dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- soap-dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- spadassin — a swordsman
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spadelike — resembling a spade
- spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
- spikedace — a scaleless, mottled, olive-brown fish, Meda fulgida, of the Gila River system in New Mexico and Arizona, having two dorsal spines.
- spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
- spiralled — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)
- unpalsied — not affected by paralysis
- upanishad — any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300: they represent a philosophical development beyond the Vedas, having as their principal message the unity of Brahman and Atman.
- uplandish — of or relating to the uplands
- upsadaisy — upsy-daisy
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.