9-letter words containing p, e, s, a
- super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- superable — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
- supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
- superfarm — a very large farm, sometimes incorporating or coordinating a number of smaller farms
- superfast — very or extremely fast
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- supermale — a person bearing an X and Y chromosome pair in the cell nuclei and normally having a penis, scrotum, and testicles, and developing hair on the face at adolescence; a boy or man.
- supermart — a large self-service store selling food and household supplies
- 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.
- superrace — a race, class, or people considered superior to others.
- superreal — surpassing realism
- superroad — an extremely large road
- supersafe — exceptionally safe
- supersale — a massive sale
- supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
- supersaur — a huge sauropod dinosaur of the genus Supersaurus, of W North America, that reached a length of about 130 feet (40 meters).
- superstar — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- supertram — a tram with greater capacity and speed than conventional trams
- superwaif — a very young and very thin supermodel
- superwave — an exceptionally large wave
- suppurate — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- surpassed — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- surpasser — a person who surpasses
- swap meet — a fair or bazaar where objects, usually secondhand, are bartered or sold.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweep-saw — a saw with a thin blade that can be used for cutting curved shapes
- sweepback — the shape of, or the angle formed by, an airplane wing or other airfoil the leading or trailing edge of which slopes backward from the fuselage.
- sweet pea — a climbing plant, Lathyrus odoratus, of the legume family, having sweet-scented flowers.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- 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.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- taperness — the state or quality of being a taper or tapered
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- tearstrip — the part of packaging that may be easily torn to open it
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.