9-letter words containing e, a, s, t, p
- plastered — drunk.
- plasterer — builder or decorator who applies plaster
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- plateless — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platelets — a small platelike body, especially a blood platelet.
- pleatless — having no pleats
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- poetaster — an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- postdated — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- 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.
- praeneste — ancient name of Palestrina.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatess — a female prelate
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- 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.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- pustulate — to cause to form pustules.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- repeaters — a person or thing that repeats.
- replaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- saltpeter — the form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , that occurs naturally, used in the manufacture of fireworks, fluxes, gunpowder, etc.; niter.
- saltpetre — the form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , that occurs naturally, used in the manufacture of fireworks, fluxes, gunpowder, etc.; niter.
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food