9-letter words containing a, r, i, s, t
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- 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.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- priapitis — inflammation of the penis.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- 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.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quatrains — Plural form of quatrain.
- racialist — racism.
- 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).
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rascality — rascally or knavish character or conduct.
- rastafari — Rastafarian (def 1).
- rasterize — to convert into pixels for screen output; convert into a raster image
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- ratifiers — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- registrar — a person who keeps a record; an official recorder.
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- reinstate — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- resistant — resisting.