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9-letter words containing r, e, p, s, i

  • replicase — RNA synthetase.
  • repositor — any surgical instrument used for correcting the position of displaced organs or bones
  • republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
  • repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
  • repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
  • repulsive — causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
  • reserpine — an alkaloid, C 3 3 H 4 0 N 2 O 9 , obtained from the root of the rauwolfia, Rauwolfia serpentina, used in the treatment of hypertension.
  • reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
  • reshipped — to ship again.
  • reshipper — a person who reships cargo etc; a forwarding agent
  • respecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
  • ridership — the passengers who use a given public transportation system, as buses or trains, or the number of such passengers.
  • ripienist — an orchestral member who is there to swell the sound rather than play solo
  • rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
  • rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
  • rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
  • sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
  • sapphired — blue-coloured
  • sapraemia — blood poisoning caused by toxins of putrefactive bacteria
  • saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
  • scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
  • schippers — Thomas, 1930–77, U.S. orchestra conductor.
  • scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
  • scripless — a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
  • scrippage — the contents of a scrip
  • scripters — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
  • scripture — Often, Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
  • semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
  • septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • septemvir — a member of a seven-man ruling body in ancient Rome.
  • septiform — sevenfold
  • seraphine — an old reed-based keyboard instrument; a reed organ
  • serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • seriplane — a test for evaluating the quality of raw silk by inspecting it under controlled conditions for variations in the diameter of the yarn and for imperfections and content.
  • serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
  • serpentis — genitive of Serpens.
  • serpulite — a fossilized calcareous tube of a serpula
  • shear pin — an easily replaceable pin inserted in a machine at a critical point and designed to shear and stop the machine if the load becomes too great
  • ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
  • shipborne — carried on a ship.
  • shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
  • shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
  • shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
  • si prefix — (unit, standard)   The standard metric prefixes used in the Système International d'Unités (SI) conventions for scientific measurement. Here are the SI magnifying prefixes, along with the corresponding binary interpretations in common use: prefix abr decimal binary yocto- 1000^-8 zepto- 1000^-7 atto- 1000^-6 femto- f 1000^-5 pico- p 1000^-4 nano- n 1000^-3 micro- * 1000^-2 * Abbreviation: Greek mu milli- m 1000^-1 kilo- k 1000^1 1024^1 = 2^10 = 1,024 mega- M 1000^2 1024^2 = 2^20 = 1,048,576 giga- G 1000^3 1024^3 = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 tera- T 1000^4 1024^4 = 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 peta- 1000^5 1024^5 = 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 exa- 1000^6 1024^6 = 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 zetta- 1000^7 1024^7 = 2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 yotta- 1000^8 1024^8 = 2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 "Femto" and "atto" derive not from Greek but from Danish. The abbreviated forms of these prefixes are common in electronics and physics. When used with bytes of storage, these prefixes usually denote multiplication by powers of 1024 = 2^10 (K, M, G and T are common in computing). Thus "MB" stands for megabytes (2^20 bytes). This common practice goes against the edicts of the BIPM who deprecate the use of these prefixes for powers of two. The formal SI prefix for 1000 is lower case "k"; some, including this dictionary, use this strictly, reserving upper case "K" for multiplication by 1024 (KB is thus "kilobytes"). Also, in data transfer rates the prefixes stand for powers of ten so, for example, 28.8 kb/s means 28,800 bits per second. The unit is often dropped so one may talk of "a 40K salary" (40000 dollars) or "2 meg of disk space" (2*2^20 bytes). The accepted pronunciation of the initial G of "giga-" is hard, /gi'ga/. Confusing 1000 and 1024 (or other powers of 2 and 10 close in magnitude) - for example, describing a memory in units of 500K or 524K instead of 512K - is a sure sign of the marketroid. For example, 3.5" microfloppies are often described as storing "1.44 MB". In fact, this is completely specious. The correct size is 1440 KB = 1440 * 1024 = 1474560 bytes. Alas, this point is probably lost on the world forever. In 1993, hacker Morgan Burke proposed, to general approval on Usenet, the following additional prefixes: groucho (10^-30), harpo (10^-27), harpi (10^27), grouchi (10^30). This would leave the prefixes zeppo-, gummo-, and chico- available for future expansion. Sadly, there is little immediate prospect that Mr. Burke's eminently sensible proposal will be ratified.
  • side trip — a brief excursion off the main route of an itinerary, as to visit a particular person or place.
  • siem reap — a city in NW Cambodia, near Angkor.
  • silvertip — grizzly bear.
  • simpering — to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
  • singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
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