9-letter words containing p, r, a, i, s
- prisiadka — a step in Slavic folk dancing in which the dancer squats on the haunches and kicks out each foot alternately; the characteristic step of the kazachok.
- prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prostasis — (in a classical temple) a pronaos or prostas before a cella.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psoriasis — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rajahship — the office or territory of a rajah
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- raspiness — harsh; grating; rasping.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- redisplay — to display again
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- replicase — RNA synthetase.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- riparians — of, relating to, or situated or dwelling on the bank of a river or other body of water: riparian villas.
- rivalship — rivalry
- sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
- saporific — producing or imparting flavor or taste.
- sapphired — blue-coloured
- sapraemia — blood poisoning caused by toxins of putrefactive bacteria
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- saprozoic — (of animals or plants) feeding on dead organic matter
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
- scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
- scrapings — Scrapings are small amounts or pieces that have been scraped off something.
- scrapping — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrippage — the contents of a scrip
- septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.