9-letter words containing p, i, s, t, l
- spill out — overflow
- spilosite — a form of slate
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spiralist — a person or thing that ascends in a spiral structure
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
- spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
- spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- spitteler — Carl [German kahrl] /German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), ("Felix Tandem") 1845–1924, Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist: Nobel prize 1919.
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- splenitis — inflammation of the spleen
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- splinting — a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- split end — an offensive end who lines up some distance outside the formation on the line of scrimmage as a pass receiver.
- split off — separate from group
- split pea — a dried green pea, split and used especially for soup.
- split pin — a metal pin made by bending double a wire, often of hemispherical section, so that it can be passed through a hole in a nut, shaft, etc, to secure another part by bending back the ends of the wire
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- split tin — a long loaf of bread split on top, giving a greater crust area
- split-new — brand-new
- split-off — the act of separating or splitting away from something else.
- splittail — a minnow, Pogonichthys macrolepidotus, of the Sacramento River, having the upper lobe of the tail much longer than the lower lobe: habitat changes have greatly reduced its numbers.
- splitters — a person or thing that splits.
- splitting — that has undergone splitting; parted lengthwise; cleft.
- splittism — the advocating of separation from a larger body
- splittist — a person who advocates separation from a larger body
- spoliator — a plunderer
- 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.
- spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stippling — to paint, engrave, or draw by means of dots or small touches.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stoplight — traffic light.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- stripling — a youth.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).