9-letter words containing o, n, e, s
- 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.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- polygenes — multiple factors
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- postponed — to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- prehensor — a part that grasps
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognoses — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pudendous — shameful
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- recension — an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
- recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- recognise — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconsign — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- reconsole — to console (someone) again
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.