9-letter words containing r, a, s, p
- prostato- — prostate gland
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- 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.
- protostar — an early stage in the evolution of a star, after the beginning of the collapse of the gas cloud from which it is formed, but before sufficient contraction has occurred to permit initiation of nuclear reactions at its core.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- psoriasis — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rajahship — the office or territory of a rajah
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- 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.
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- raspberry — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- 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.
- repassage — a passage back or return, a repass or act of repassing
- repeaters — a person or thing that repeats.
- reperusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- replaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- replicase — RNA synthetase.
- resampled — a small part of anything or one of a number, intended to show the quality, style, or nature of the whole; specimen.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- resharpen — to sharpen again
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- 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
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- sales rep — sales representative.