9-letter words containing i, s, o, l, n
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- 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.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- 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.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- resoiling — to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- rosin oil — a viscous liquid, colorless to black, distilled from rosin and used in making adhesives, inks, insulation, lacquers, lubricants, plasticizers, and varnish.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- sailoring — the occupation or duties of a sailor.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- salmonoid — resembling a salmon.
- salpingo- — indicating the Fallopian tubes
- saltation — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- santolina — any plant of the evergreen Mediterranean genus Santolina, esp S. chamaecyparissus, grown for its silvery-grey felted foliage: family Asteraceae (composites)
- scalation — an arrangement of scales, as on a fish.
- schooling — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- scoldings — the action of a person who scolds; a rebuke; reproof: I got a scolding for being late again.
- scopoline — a soluble crystalline alkaloid obtained from the decomposition of scopolamine and used as a sedative. Formula: C8H13NO2
- scoreline — sports: intermediate or final score
- scrolling — computing: moving around screen
- seclusion — an act of secluding: the seclusion of unruly students.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- selenious — containing tetravalent or bivalent selenium.
- selenosis — a poisoned condition caused by selenium, occurring esp in livestock as a result of the natural presence of selenium in plants and soil
- semicolon — the punctuation mark (;) used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list than is indicated by a comma, as between the two clauses of a compound sentence.
- seminoles — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- sensorial — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- sensorily — by (the use of) the senses, by means of the senses, in relation to or in respect of the senses
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.