9-letter words containing p, a, s, i, o
- parotitis — inflammation of a parotid.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- parsonish — like a parson
- passional — of, relating to, or marked by passion.
- pasticcio — a pastiche.
- pastitsio — a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pastosity — having a heavy impasto.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- 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
- peronista — Peronist.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
- photopsia — a rare disease of the eye's retina that results in the perception of flashes of light
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- piroplasm — babesia.
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- pistachio — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastisol — a dispersion of resin in a plasticizer, forming a liquid or paste that gels when heated.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- polisario — an independence movement opposing Moroccan control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory that Morocco annexed in stages beginning in 1976.
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- post-paid — with the postage prepaid
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- 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.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.