9-letter words containing i, n, s, o
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- postilion — a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognosis — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- propontis — Marmara
- proposing — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- 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.
- provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- qiongshan — a port on N Hainan island, in S China: chief city of the island.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- raskolnik — a member of any of several sects founded by dissenters from the Russian Orthodox Church who opposed the liturgical reforms of Nikon in the 17th century.
- rawlinson — George, 1812–1902, English historian.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- recension — an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
- recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- recognise — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconsign — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- remission — the act of remitting.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.