9-letter words containing n, a, p, e, s
- cispadane — on this (the southern) side of the River Po, as viewed from Rome
- companies — Plural form of company.
- depascent — Consuming.
- diapensia — An evergreen arctic shrub, Diapensia lapponica.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dyspnoeal — Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- empanadas — Plural form of empanada.
- empyreans — Plural form of empyrean.
- enclasped — Simple past tense and past participle of enclasp.
- encompass — Surround and have or hold within.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- endoplasm — The more fluid, granular inner layer of the cytoplasm in ameboid cells.
- endpapers — Plural form of endpaper.
- ensamples — Plural form of ensample.
- ephesians — a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians), containing an exposition of the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ
- escarping — Present participle of escarp.
- espagnole — a tomato and sherry sauce
- esperance — (obsolete) Expectation, hope.
- esperanto — Esperanto is an invented language which consists of parts of several European languages, and which was designed to help people from different countries communicate with each other.
- esperanza — (Texas) yellow bells, Tecoma stans.
- espionage — The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
- esplanade — A long, open, level area, typically beside the sea, along which people may walk for pleasure.
- expansile — Of, relating to, or capable of expansion.
- expansion — The action of becoming larger or more extensive.
- expansive — Covering a wide area in terms of space or scope; extensive or wide-ranging.
- explanans — A collection of propositions that, taken together, explain another proposition (the 'explanandum').
- gaspiness — the quality or state of being gaspy
- grapiness — the quality of tasting like a grape
- greenspan — Alan, born 1926, U.S. economist: chairman of the Federal Reserve Board 1987–2006.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- impatiens — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, having irregular flowers in which the calyx and corolla are not clearly distinguishable and bearing fruit that bursts open to scatter the seeds.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites