9-letter words containing a, s, o, p, t
- post-boat — mailboat.
- post-paid — with the postage prepaid
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- postdated — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- postnatal — subsequent to childbirth: postnatal infection.
- 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.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postulata — things postulated
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postwoman — female postal worker
- pot roast — a dish of meat, usually brisket of beef or chuck roast, stewed in one piece in a covered pot and served in its own gravy.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poutassou — a gadoid fish, Micromesistius poutassou, also known as the blue whiting
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- 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.
- prostato- — prostate gland
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- 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.
- protostar — an early stage in the evolution of a star, after the beginning of the collapse of the gas cloud from which it is formed, but before sufficient contraction has occurred to permit initiation of nuclear reactions at its core.
- 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.
- 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.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- 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
- scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- sellotape — clear sticking tape
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa