9-letter words containing p, o, r, i, s
- improviso — (obsolete) Not prepared beforehand; unpremeditated; extemporaneous.
- in person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- in-person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- 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.
- isopropyl — containing the isopropyl group.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- isotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- meiospore — a haploid spore resulting from meiosis
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- morphisms — Plural form of morphism.
- morphosis — the sequence or manner of development or change in an organism or any of its parts.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outspring — to spring out
- outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- outstrips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstrip.
- overpoise — the action of weighing down on something
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- parecious — paroicous.
- parkinson — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.