9-letter words containing l, i, t, a, p
- slapstick — broad comedy characterized by boisterous action, as the throwing of pies in actors' faces, mugging, and obvious farcical situations and jokes.
- slip seat — an upholstered seat having its own frame that fits loosely into the frame of a chair.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spatially — of or relating to space.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spiralist — a person or thing that ascends in a spiral structure
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
- splittail — a minnow, Pogonichthys macrolepidotus, of the Sacramento River, having the upper lobe of the tail much longer than the lower lobe: habitat changes have greatly reduced its numbers.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- 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.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
- tailplane — horizontal stabilizer.
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- tarpaulin — a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- tie plate — a plate set between the base of a rail and a crosstie to distribute the rail load over a greater area of the tie and thus reduce wear and damage to it.
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- tin plate — thin sheet of tin-coated iron, steel
- tin-plate — to coat (iron or steel sheet) with tin.
- tocopilla — a seaport in N Chile.
- topically — pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- traplight — a lighting device used to trap insects, especially moths.
- tripteral — (of a classical building) having a triple pteron.
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- typically — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- untypical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- ypsilanti — Alexander, 1792–1828, Greek patriot and revolutionary leader.
- zelotypia — (formal) jealousy.