9-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- stop sign — a traffic sign requiring a motorist to stop before continuing.
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
- stoplight — traffic light.
- store pig — a pig that has not yet been weaned and weighs less than 40 kg
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- storm pit — a storm cellar.
- stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip map — a map charting only the immediate territory to be traversed, which appears as a long, narrow strip.
- strip off — remove clothes
- strip out — to remove the working parts of (a machine)
- stripling — a youth.
- stripping — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupidest — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- superbity — pride
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.
- superthin — extremely thin
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- sweptwing — (of an aircraft, winged missile, etc.) having sweptback wings.
- 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.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- sympatico — simpatico
- sympatric — originating in or occupying the same geographical area.
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- tearstrip — the part of packaging that may be easily torn to open it
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- thaneship — thanage.
- the pipes — the bagpipes
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- tidepools — tidal pool.