9-letter words containing r, a, s, p
- mapmakers — Plural form of mapmaker.
- 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.
- megaspore — the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Compare microspore.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- midspread — (statistics) The interquartile range.
- miniparks — Plural form of minipark.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mispraise — to praise wrongly or mistakenly
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- mopboards — Plural form of mopboard.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- nanopores — Plural form of nanopore.
- newspaper — a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
- nonparous — having borne no children.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operators — Plural form of operator.
- operettas — Plural form of operetta.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- oversharp — too sharp
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- paintress — a female painter
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- panderess — a female panderer
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panderous — resembling a pander
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pantdress — a dress with a divided skirt
- pap smear — a test for cancer of the cervix, consisting of the staining of cervical cells taken in a cervical or vaginal smear (Pap smear or pap smear) for examination of exfoliated cells.
- paperless — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- paracusia — defective hearing.
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- paradisal — paradisiacal.
- parallels — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.