9-letter words containing e, p, i, s, t, l
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original 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.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- sepiolite — meerschaum (def 1).
- sept-iles — French name of Seven Isles.
- septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six
- serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
- silvertip — grizzly bear.
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- simpliste — someone who tends to over-simplify
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- sleepsuit — a baby's sleeping garment
- slip seat — an upholstered seat having its own frame that fits loosely into the frame of a chair.
- slip stem — a spoon handle cut obliquely at the end from top to bottom.
- slip step — a dance step made by moving the left foot one step sideways and closing the right foot to the left foot: used when dancing in a circle during Scottish reels and jigs
- slipsheet — a sheet so inserted.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spilosite — a form of slate
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- spitteler — Carl [German kahrl] /German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), ("Felix Tandem") 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1919.
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- splenitis — inflammation of the spleen
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split end — an offensive end who lines up some distance outside the formation on the line of scrimmage as a pass receiver.
- split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
- split-new — brand-new
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.