9-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- positives — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- post mill — a windmill built round a central post on which the whole mill can be turned so that the sails catch the wind
- post time — the time at which the entries in a race are required to be at the starting post.
- post-obit — effective after a particular person's death.
- post-paid — with the postage prepaid
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- posterity — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
- posterize — to humiliate (a sporting opponent) by performing a dramatic feat against them
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- posticous — hinder; posterior.
- postilion — a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- pot still — a simple and sometimes primitive type of still, used especially in the making of cognac, corn liquor, and malt Scotch whisky.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- potteries — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescript — prescribed.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- press kit — a packet of promotional materials, as background information, photographs, or samples, for distribution to the press, as at a press conference.
- prestiges — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- preterist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled. Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prettiest — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- prettyish — quite pretty