9-letter words containing e, p, s, t
- hepaticas — Plural form of hepatica.
- hepatitis — inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- high-step — to walk or run by raising the legs higher than normal.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hot press — a hot press is an airing cupboard for clothes
- hot-press — a machine applying heat in conjunction with mechanical pressure, as for producing a smooth surface on paper or for expressing oil.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- housetops — Plural form of housetop.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- impatiens — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, having irregular flowers in which the calyx and corolla are not clearly distinguishable and bearing fruit that bursts open to scatter the seeds.
- impeticos — to put in a pocket
- impetuous — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- impetuses — Plural form of impetus.
- impieties — Plural form of impiety.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- insipient — lack of wisdom; foolishness.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.