9-letter words containing p, a, s, t, r
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- emplaster — a plaster
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- esotropia — A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.
- esperanto — Esperanto is an invented language which consists of parts of several European languages, and which was designed to help people from different countries communicate with each other.
- estrapade — The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- extrapose — to move a word or words to the end of, or outside, a clause or sentence without altering its sense
- firetraps — Plural form of firetrap.
- foreparts — Plural form of forepart.
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- grassplot — a plot of ground covered with or reserved for grass.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- hardparts — the skeleton
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operators — Plural form of operator.
- operettas — Plural form of operetta.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- paintress — a female painter
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parasitic — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.