9-letter words containing p, r, i, s
- inspirers — Plural form of inspirer.
- inspiring — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- 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.
- 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).
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- liripipes — Plural form of liripipe.
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- marsupian — (obsolete) marsupial.
- marsupium — the pouch or fold of skin on the abdomen of a female marsupial.
- 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.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- mispriced — Simple past tense and past participle of misprice.
- misprices — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprice.
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misprison — Misconstruction of misprision.
- misprized — Simple past tense and past participle of misprize.
- misprizer — a despiser or scorner
- misprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misprize.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb