9-letter words containing a, s, t, o, n, i
- overstain — to stain too much
- panoistic — (of insects) producing ova without cells to nurse them
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- peronista — Peronist.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- 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.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- 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.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
- saltation — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- sanatoria — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanbenito — an ornamented garment worn by a condemned heretic at an auto-da-fé.
- sanctions — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- santolina — any plant of the evergreen Mediterranean genus Santolina, esp S. chamaecyparissus, grown for its silvery-grey felted foliage: family Asteraceae (composites)
- santonica — the dried flower heads of any of several species of wormwood, belonging to the genus Artemisia, used as a vermifuge.
- santorini — a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- satiation — to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
- satinwood — the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used especially for making furniture.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- saxitoxin — a powerful neurotoxin, C 1 0 H 1 7 N 7 O 4 , produced by the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax catenella, the causative agent of red tide.
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- scazontic — relating to or consisting of scazons
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- 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.
- sensation — the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- 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.
- sigmatron — a machine for generating X-rays
- signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- siltation — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.