9-letter words containing p, i, n, s, o, t
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pipestone — a reddish argillaceous stone used by North American Indians for making tobacco pipes.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- postilion — a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- propontis — Marmara
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- 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.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- spinosity — the condition of being spinose
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- step into — enter
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- stop sign — a traffic sign requiring a motorist to stop before continuing.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.