9-letter words containing p, a, s, n
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporozoan — any parasitic spore-forming protozoan of the phylum (or class) Sporozoa, several species of which, as plasmodia, cause malaria.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spragging — a pole or bar hinged to the rear axle of a cart or the like in such a way that it can brace the vehicle against a road to prevent it from rolling downhill.
- sprawling — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
- spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
- springald — a youth; young fellow.
- spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- stand pat — exactly to the point or purpose; apt; opportune: a pat solution to a problem.
- standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
- steampunk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- steel pan — steel drum.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stepdance — a dance in which the steps are the most important characteristic, specifically a solo dance with intricate, vigorous steps, often performed with the hands kept in the pockets.
- stephanie — a female given name.
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- supernate — a supernatant liquid
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- swampland — land or an area covered with swamps.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tap pants — women's loose-fitting underpants.
- taperness — the state or quality of being a taper or tapered
- thaneship — thanage.
- time span — duration, period
- timespans — a span of time; time frame.
- tin pants — heavy waterproof trousers, usually of paraffin-soaked canvas, worn by loggers and fishermen.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.