9-letter words containing p, r, i, n, t, s
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- propontis — Marmara
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- 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.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- reinspect — to inspect or examine again
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- ripienist — an orchestral member who is there to swell the sound rather than play solo
- scripting — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- 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.
- serpentis — genitive of Serpens.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- spartanic — (usually lowercase) suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere.
- sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spindrift — spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.
- spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- stripling — a youth.
- stripping — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- superthin — extremely thin
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- traipsing — to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- trappings — articles of equipment or dress, especially of an ornamental character.
- unstriped — not striped; nonstriated, as muscular tissue.
- wrest pin — peg (def 5).
- wrist pin — a pin joining the end of a connecting rod to a trunk piston or the end of a piston rod.