9-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- time span — duration, period
- timespans — a span of time; time frame.
- tin pants — heavy waterproof trousers, usually of paraffin-soaked canvas, worn by loggers and fishermen.
- tip sheet — a short publication containing the latest information, predictions, and tips for a particular business or subject: tip sheets for horse racing; a tip sheet for gamblers; a stock-market tip sheet; a tip sheet about safety concerns.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- titleship — lawful claim to title, especially of property.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)
- tok pisin — Neo-Melanesian.
- top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- topstitch — to sew a line of stitches on the face side of (a garment or the like) alongside a seam.
- traipsing — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- trapezist — a trapeze artist
- trapezius — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the upper and back part of the neck, shoulders, and back, the action of which raises, or rotates, or draws back the shoulders, and pulls the head backward or to one side.
- trappings — articles of equipment or dress, especially of an ornamental character.
- trappists — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a branch of the Cistercian order, observing the austere reformed rule established at La Trappe in 1664.
- tricuspid — Also, tricuspidal. having three cusps or points, as a tooth. Compare bicuspid.
- triphasic — having or existing in three phases.
- troopship — a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.
- tutorship — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- tympanist — a person who plays the drums, especially the kettledrums, in an orchestra.
- type site — the place where artifacts characteristic of a particular culture or cultural stage have first been found in situ, customarily adopted as the name of that culture or stage.
- type-site — the place where artifacts characteristic of a particular culture or cultural stage have first been found in situ, customarily adopted as the name of that culture or stage.
- typhlitis — inflammation of the cecum.
- typhlosis — blindness.
- unstriped — not striped; nonstriated, as muscular tissue.
- up-itself — pretentious or pompous
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- upsitting — an act of sitting up, esp after childbirth or after illness
- upstaging — on or toward the back of the stage.
- upstirred — disturbed; in a commotion
- utopistic — utopianism.
- vanaspati — a hydrogenated vegetable fat commonly used in India as a substitute for butter
- vide post — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see after
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- waypoints — Plural form of waypoint.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whipstock — the handle of a whip.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- windswept — open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
- woodspite — the green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis
- wrest pin — peg (def 5).
- wrist pin — a pin joining the end of a connecting rod to a trunk piston or the end of a piston rod.
- wristdrop — paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hand causing it to droop, due to injuries or some poisons, as lead or arsenic.
- ypsilanti — Alexander, 1792–1828, Greek patriot and revolutionary leader.