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9-letter words containing p, i, s, t

  • slipstick — slide rule.
  • slo pitch — slow pitch
  • slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
  • snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
  • sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
  • solipsist — Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
  • sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  • sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
  • spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
  • spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
  • spagyrist — an alchemist
  • spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
  • sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
  • sparterie — things made from esparto
  • spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
  • sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
  • spasmatic — given to spasms
  • spatially — of or relating to space.
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
  • specint92 — (benchmark)   A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of integer benchmarks from SPEC (geometric mean of the 6 SPEC ratios of CINT92) which can be used to estimate a machine's single-tasking performance on integer code. SPECint92 obsoletes SPECint89. See also SPECbase_int92.
  • speediest — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
  • spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
  • spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
  • spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
  • sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
  • sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
  • spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
  • spill out — overflow
  • spilosite — a form of slate
  • spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
  • spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
  • spinosity — the condition of being spinose
  • spinulate — having a spine or spines
  • spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
  • spiralist — a person or thing that ascends in a spiral structure
  • spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
  • spiraster — a part of a living sponge
  • spiration — the act of breathing
  • spiritful — full of spirit or spiritual
  • spiritism — the doctrine or practices of spiritualism.
  • spiritoso — spirited; lively (used as a musical direction).
  • spiritous — of the nature of spirit; immaterial, ethereal, or refined.
  • spiritual — of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; incorporeal.
  • spirituel — showing or having a refined and graceful mind or wit.
  • spissatus — (of a cloud) dense enough to obscure the sun.
  • 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.
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