9-letter words containing p, a, r, t, o, s
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- podcaster — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- poetaster — an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- post road — (formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- 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.
- pot roast — a dish of meat, usually brisket of beef or chuck roast, stewed in one piece in a covered pot and served in its own gravy.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- 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.
- prostato- — prostate gland
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- 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.
- protostar — an early stage in the evolution of a star, after the beginning of the collapse of the gas cloud from which it is formed, but before sufficient contraction has occurred to permit initiation of nuclear reactions at its core.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- 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
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.