9-letter words containing p, i, n, s
- lippiness — the characteristic of being excessively outspoken or brash
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- longships — Plural form of longship.
- loopiness — The state or condition of being loopy; craziness.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lynchpins — Plural form of lynchpin.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- 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.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- minipills — Plural form of minipill.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misspends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspend.
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
- mistyping — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- moss pink — a phlox, Phlox subulata, of the eastern U.S., having showy pink to purple flowers.
- 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)
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- nicopolis — city in ancient Epirus
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nightspot — a nightclub.
- nilopolis — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- nine-spot — a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- nipcheese — a ship's purser
- nipissing — a lake in SE Canada, in Ontario, N of Georgian Bay. 330 sq. mi. (855 sq. km).
- nippiness — The condition of being nippy.
- nipponese — Japanese
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- noscapine — (biochemistry) A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid obtained from plants of the Papaveraceae family, primarily used for its antitussive effects.