9-letter words containing p, a, i, l, s
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- surprisal — the act of surprising.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- unispiral — having one spiral.
- unpalsied — not affected by paralysis
- uplandish — of or relating to the uplands
- upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- waspishly — In a waspish manner.
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- ypsilanti — Alexander, 1792–1828, Greek patriot and revolutionary leader.