9-letter words containing p, o, s, e, i
- off-piste — of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open side — the side of the scrum on which the majority of the backs are ranged
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- opposites — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- opsonized — Simple past tense and past participle of opsonize.
- optatives — Plural form of optative.
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- overpoise — the action of weighing down on something
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- paesiello — Giovanni [Italian jaw-vahn-nee] /Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), Paisiello, Giovanni.
- paisiello — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1741–1816, Italian composer.
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- papillose — full of papillae.
- parecious — paroicous.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pectinose — arabinose.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- pelorised — affected by peloria
- penistone — a coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- perispore — a membrane surrounding a spore.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- persimmon — any of several trees of the genus Diospyros, especially D. virginiana, of North America, bearing astringent, plumlike fruit that is sweet and edible when ripe, and D. kaki, of Japan and China, bearing soft, red or orange fruit.
- personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- pettitoes — pig's trotters, esp when used as food
- phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean