9-letter words containing r, a, s, p
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardparts — the skeleton
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- isocarpic — having carpels equal in number to the other floral parts.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- japanners — Plural form of japanner.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- krupskaya — Nadezhda Konstantinovna [nuh-dye-zhduh kuh n-stuhn-tyee-nuh v-nuh] /nʌˈdyɛ ʒdə kən stʌnˈtyi nəv nə/ (Show IPA), 1869–1939, Russian social worker and wife of V.I. Lenin.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- 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.
- manspread — (of a man) to sit with one's legs far apart, taking up too much space on a seat shared with other people: guys who manspread on the subway.
- mapepires — Plural form of mapepire.