9-letter words containing a, r, s, o, n
- part song — a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- perforans — (of nerves, muscles, or blood vessels) perforating or penetrating other anatomical structures
- peronista — Peronist.
- personage — a person of distinction or importance.
- personals — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- 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.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- 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.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- 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.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- quadroons — Plural form of quadroon.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- road sign — traffic notice
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosenwald — Julius, 1862–1932, U.S. businessman and philanthropist.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- roundsman — a person who makes rounds, as of inspection.
- saffroned — containing or coloured by saffron
- sailoring — the occupation or duties of a sailor.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- san ramon — a town in W California.