9-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- 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 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.
- 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.
- sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- sputnik 1 — an unmanned Soviet satellite launched in 1957, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth
- st-pierre — town in NW Martinique, West Indies, on the site of a city destroyed (1902) by eruption of Mount Pelée: pop. 5,000
- stairstep — a step in a staircase.
- standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
- 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.
- stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
- steampipe — a pipe for conveying steam from a boiler.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- 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
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stephanie — a female given name.
- stephen i — Saint, died a.d. 257? pope 254–257.
- sth is up — If you say that something is up, you mean that something is wrong or that something worrying is happening.
- stick pin — a decorative straight pin with a jeweled or ornamented head and a long shaft with a sheath for encasing the point, used for holding an ascot or necktie in place.
- stipitate — having or supported by a stipe: a stipitate ovary.
- 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).
- stitch up — sew a wound
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.