9-letter words containing p, e, r, s, i
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperious — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- imprecise — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- impressed — to press or force into public service, as sailors.
- impresser — to affect deeply or strongly in mind or feelings; influence in opinion: He impressed us as a sincere young man.
- impresses — Plural form of impress.
- improvise — to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- in person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- in-person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- inspirers — Plural form of inspirer.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- liripipes — Plural form of liripipe.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
- misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
- misprized — Simple past tense and past participle of misprize.
- misprizer — a despiser or scorner
- misprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.