9-letter words containing p, s, i, o, n
- pectinose — arabinose.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- 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.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- 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)
- phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
- phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phosphine — a colorless, poisonous, ill-smelling, flammable gas, PH 3 .
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- piousness — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- pipestone — a reddish argillaceous stone used by North American Indians for making tobacco pipes.
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- poisoning — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- postilion — a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.