9-letter words containing p, a, s, e
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- impassive — without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- 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.
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- 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.
- 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
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- keepsakes — Plural form of keepsake.
- kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- knapweeds — Plural form of knapweed.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.