9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, s, p
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- power-saw — to cut with a power saw.
- praecoces — a division of birds whose young are able to run when first hatched
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- preabsorb — to absorb beforehand or in advance
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- procellas — pucellas.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- sea power — naval strength.
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- superroad — an extremely large road
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- wallopers — Plural form of walloper.
- workspace — space used or required for one's work, as in an office or home.