9-letter words containing p, a, r, t, i, s
- patristic — of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peronista — Peronist.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- piscatrix — a female angler; a fisherwoman
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- priapitis — inflammation of the penis.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- prostasis — (in a classical temple) a pronaos or prostas before a cella.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- sparterie — things made from esparto
- spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang