9-letter words containing p, i, u, s
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- plausibly — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- plus sign — the symbol (+) indicating summation or a positive quality.
- plus size — an extra-large size category of clothing, especially for women.
- plus tick — uptick (def 2).
- plus-size — an extra-large size category of clothing, especially for women.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- polish up — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- pop music — popular music
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- posticous — hinder; posterior.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- 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.
- poujadism — a conservative reactionary movement to protect the business interests of small traders
- pousowdie — any dish containing a number of different ingredients; in particular, a Scottish stew made from sheep's head
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- prescious — prescient
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- 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.
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pseudaxis — sympodium.
- publicise — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- publicist — a person who publicizes, especially a press agent or public-relations consultant.
- published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puckishly — in a puckish manner