9-letter words containing a, r, i, s, t, o
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- overstain — to stain too much
- parotitis — inflammation of a parotid.
- 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.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- 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.
- 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.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- radio set — an apparatus that receives radio signals
- radiocast — a radiobroadcast.
- radiosity — (graphics) A method for rendering a view of a three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding. Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of large scenes.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rib roast — a cut of beef taken from the small end of the ribs and containing a large rib eye and two or more ribs.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rotavirus — a double-stranded RNA virus of the genus Rotavirus, family Reoviridae, that is a major cause of infant diarrhea.
- salivator — any agent that causes salivation.
- sanatoria — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- santorini — a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sartorial — of or relating to tailors or their trade: sartorial workmanship.
- sartorius — a long, flat, narrow muscle extending obliquely from the front of the hip to the inner side of the tibia, assisting in bending the hip or knee joint and in rotating the thigh outward: the longest muscle in humans.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- sex ratio — the proportional distribution of the sexes in a population aggregate, expressed as the number of males per 100 females.
- sgraffito — a technique of ornamentation in which a surface layer of paint, plaster, slip, etc., is incised to reveal a ground of contrasting color.