9-letter words containing n, a, p, s
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handicaps — Plural form of handicap.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- hot pants — (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- impassion — to fill, or affect strongly, with intense feeling or passion; inflame; excite.
- impasting — Present participle of impaste.
- 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 a spin — swooning
- in a spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- 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.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- 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
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- knapsacks — Plural form of knapsack.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- lampstand — a support for a light bulb
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- landslips — Plural form of landslip.
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.