9-letter words containing i, s, o, p, e, r
- gossipper — a person who gossips
- groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- imperious — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- in person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- in-person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- overpoise — the action of weighing down on something
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- parecious — paroicous.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pelorised — affected by peloria
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- 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
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- perispore — a membrane surrounding a spore.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society