9-letter words containing p, i, n, e
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- indalpine — A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor marketed in 1983 as an antidepressant but swiftly withdrawn when found to cause neutropenia.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
- ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- innkeeper — a person who owns or manages an inn or, sometimes, a hotel.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- inopinate — unexpected
- inpatient — a patient who stays in a hospital while receiving medical care or treatment.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- insipient — lack of wisdom; foolishness.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- inspirers — Plural form of inspirer.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- 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.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
- interpone — to interpose
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- interpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- ip number — internet address
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- jumpiness — The state of being jumpy.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kidnapped — a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- kidnappee — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- kidnapper — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.