9-letter words containing p, a, s, n, t
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- pastiness — the quality of being pasty.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- patiences — a female given name.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- peg pants — close-fitting trousers made of stretch fabric
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- pentosans — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peronista — Peronist.
- 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)
- pett scan — PET scan
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- photoscan — to study the distribution of a radioactive isotope or radiopaque dye in (a body organ or part) through the use of x-rays.
- pianistic — relating to, characteristic of, or adaptable for the piano.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- plantless — having no plants
- plantlets — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantsman — a nurseryman.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- postnatal — subsequent to childbirth: postnatal infection.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postwoman — female postal worker
- praeneste — ancient name of Palestrina.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- 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.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- sahaptian — a family of North American Indian languages consisting of Sahaptin and Nez Percé
- saintship — the qualities or status of a saint.
- sand trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.
- sand-trap — (on a golf course) a shallow pit partly filled with sand, usually located near a green, and designed to serve as a hazard.