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9-letter words containing p, s, e

  • aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
  • aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
  • aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
  • aspectual — of or relating to grammatical aspect
  • aspergill — An aspergillum.
  • aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
  • aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
  • aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
  • asphalted — Simple past tense and past participle of asphalt.
  • asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
  • asphodels — Plural form of asphodel.
  • aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
  • aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
  • asplenium — any fern of the very large genus Asplenium, of worldwide distribution. Some, esp the bird's nest fern (A. nidus), are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative evergreen fronds: family Polypodiaceae
  • asymptote — a straight line that is closely approached by a plane curve so that the perpendicular distance between them decreases to zero as the distance from the origin increases to infinity
  • atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auspicate — to begin or inaugurate with a ceremony intended to bring good fortune
  • austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
  • autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  • autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
  • autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
  • b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
  • baby step — (in the game of giant steps) the shortest step permitted a player, executed by placing the heel of one foot against the toe of the other and drawing the back foot up to the front foot.
  • backspace — to move a (typewriter carriage) backwards
  • backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
  • backswept — slanting backwards
  • bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
  • bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
  • bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
  • bandshape — (physics) The shape (distribution of strengths with frequency) of a band of electromagnetic radiation.
  • baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
  • barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
  • base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
  • base jump — a parachute jump from the top of a building, bridge, cliff, etc., usually at a height of 1,000 feet (305 meters) or less.
  • base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
  • base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
  • baseplate — a flat supporting plate or frame at the base of a column, designed to distribute the column's weight over a greater area and provide increased stability
  • basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
  • basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
  • beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
  • bedplates — Plural form of bedplate.
  • bedspread — A bedspread is a decorative cover which is put over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.
  • bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
  • bel paese — a mild creamy Italian cheese
  • bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
  • beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
  • bespangle — to cover or adorn with or as if with spangles
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