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9-letter words containing p, a, s, t, i

  • piss-take — A piss-take is an act of making fun of someone or something.
  • pistachio — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
  • pistareen — peseta (def 2).
  • pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
  • pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • plasmatic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
  • plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
  • plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
  • 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.
  • platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
  • play-list — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
  • pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
  • pointsman — a railway switchman.
  • port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
  • 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.
  • practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
  • practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
  • practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
  • predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
  • prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
  • priapitis — inflammation of the penis.
  • prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
  • privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
  • privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
  • prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
  • psamtik i — king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).
  • psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
  • pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
  • pulsating — throbbing
  • pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
  • pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
  • put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
  • rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
  • rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
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