9-letter words containing e, a, s, t, r
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostrasize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- out-years — the fiscal year after a year covered by a budget; any year beyond the budget year for which projections of spending are made.
- outbreaks — Plural form of outbreak.
- outmaster — to surpass
- outraised — Simple past tense and past participle of outraise.
- outreason — (transitive) To surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- outstared — Simple past tense and past participle of outstare.
- outstream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- outswears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outswear.
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overroast — to roast for too long so as to spoil
- overstaff — to provide an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- overstare — to outstare
- overstate — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paintress — a female painter
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- parentese — baby talk (def 2).
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- pastorage — pastorate.
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- pastorate — the office or term of office of a pastor.
- pasturage — pasture.
- patissier — a person who makes pastries; a pastry chef
- 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.
- paymaster — a person authorized by a company, government, etc., to pay out wages or salaries, especially in the military.
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pederasty — sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs