9-letter words containing n, s, p
- pinchfist — a miser
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- ping hsin — (Hsieh Wan-ying) Bing Xin.
- pink slip — termination of employment
- pink-slip — to dismiss from a job: He will be pink-slipped next month.
- pinkiness — a pinky quality or colouring
- pinsetter — a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- pinstripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pint-size — comparatively small in size: a pint-size typewriter.
- piousness — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- pipestone — a reddish argillaceous stone used by North American Indians for making tobacco pipes.
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pithiness — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- plain-saw — to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.
- plainness — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plainsman — an inhabitant of the plains.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
- plannings — the act or process of making a plan or plans.
- plansheer — plancer.
- plantless — having no plants
- plantlets — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantsman — a nurseryman.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasance — a place laid out as a pleasure garden or promenade.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- pleasence — Donald. 1919–95, British actor. His films include Dr Crippen (1962) and Cul de Sac (1966)
- plenished — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plus sign — the symbol (+) indicating summation or a positive quality.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- poisoning — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- polygenes — multiple factors