9-letter words containing p, i
- innkeeper — a person who owns or manages an inn or, sometimes, a hotel.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- inopinate — unexpected
- inotropic — influencing the contractility of muscular tissue.
- inpatient — a patient who stays in a hospital while receiving medical care or treatment.
- inpayment — a sum of money paid into a bank account
- inpouring — The action of pouring something in; an infusion.
- inputting — something that is put in.
- insipidly — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- insipient — lack of wisdom; foolishness.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- inspirers — Plural form of inspirer.
- inspiring — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
- interpone — to interpose
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- interpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- iodophile — taking an intense iodine stain
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- ionotropy — the reversible interconversion of a pair of organic isomers as a result of the migration of an ionic part of the molecule
- ip number — internet address
- iphigenia — Classical Mythology. the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- ipil-ipil — a fast-growing tropical tree, Leucaena leucocephala, of the legume family, that is a source of fertilizer, animal feed, and timber.
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- irrupting — Present participle of irrupt.
- irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- irruptive — of, relating to, or characterized by irruption.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isocarpic — having carpels equal in number to the other floral parts.
- isomorphs — Plural form of isomorph.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isopolity — equal rights of citizenship, as in different communities; mutual political rights.