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9-letter words containing m, p, s, i

  • primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
  • primaries — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
  • promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
  • promissor — (in law) one who makes a promise
  • promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
  • 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.
  • proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
  • psamtik i — king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).
  • ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
  • puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
  • pumiceous — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
  • rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
  • redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
  • rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
  • rompishly — in a rompish manner
  • sapraemia — blood poisoning caused by toxins of putrefactive bacteria
  • semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
  • semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
  • semipious — quite pious; somewhat pious
  • semiplume — a semiplume feather
  • septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • septemfid — divided into seven
  • septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
  • septiform — sevenfold
  • septimana — a week.
  • septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six
  • siem reap — a city in NW Cambodia, near Angkor.
  • simpatico — congenial or like-minded; likable: I find our new neighbor simpatico in every respect.
  • simpering — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
  • simplesse — simpleness
  • simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
  • simpliste — someone who tends to over-simplify
  • simscript — A free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language produced by Harry Markowitz et al of Rand Corp in 1963. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on IBM 7090 and was designed for large discrete simulations. It influenced Simula. Later versions included SIMSCRIPT I.5 and SIMSCRIPT II.5.
  • skip-bomb — to attack (a target) by skip bombing.
  • slip form — a form into which concrete is poured that can be slowly moved and reused in construction, as of a pavement or a building.
  • slip stem — a spoon handle cut obliquely at the end from top to bottom.
  • snap brim — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • solipsism — Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
  • spanaemia — a lack of red corpuscles in blood
  • spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
  • spasmatic — given to spasms
  • spasmodic — pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
  • spermaria — spermaries
  • spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
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