9-letter words containing n, s, p
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- merperson — A mythological creature with a human upper half (head, arms, and torso) and a piscine lower half.
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- minipills — Plural form of minipill.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misspends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspend.
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- mistyping — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monopodes — Plural form of monopode.
- monopoles — Plural form of monopole.
- monopsony — the market condition that exists when there is one buyer.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- monoscope — a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- moss pink — a phlox, Phlox subulata, of the eastern U.S., having showy pink to purple flowers.
- mossplant — another term for moss
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- nanopores — Plural form of nanopore.
- naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- napoleons — Plural form of napoleon.
- nasoscope — Rhinoscope.
- navpaktos — Greek name of Lepanto.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- neopagans — Plural form of neopagan.
- neophytes — Plural form of neophyte.
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nepenthes — nepenthe.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.