9-letter words containing a, p, r, o, s, i
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- parsonish — like a parson
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- 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
- peronista — Peronist.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- piroplasm — babesia.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- polisario — an independence movement opposing Moroccan control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory that Morocco annexed in stages beginning in 1976.
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prostasis — (in a classical temple) a pronaos or prostas before a cella.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- psoriasis — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spirogram — a record made by a spirograph
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.