9-letter words containing p, a, i, n, s
- 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.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- 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.
- 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.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- noscapine — (biochemistry) A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid obtained from plants of the Papaveraceae family, primarily used for its antitussive effects.
- opsomania — an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- opticians — Plural form of optician.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- paintress — a female painter
- pakistani — a native or inhabitant of Pakistan.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- pan-asian — of or relating to all Asian peoples.
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- panderism — the work of a pander