9-letter words containing s, a, l, t
- oblations — Plural form of oblation.
- obligates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obligate.
- obstacles — Plural form of obstacle.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
- oldcastle — Sir John (Lord Cobham) 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.
- oleasters — Plural form of oleaster.
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- oscillate — to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- osculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate.
- ostealgia — (pathology) bone pain.
- otoplasty — plastic surgery of the external ear.
- outflanks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outflank.
- outlasted — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
- outsailed — Simple past tense and past participle of outsail.
- outvalues — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvalue.
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- 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.
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- pantalets — Sometimes, pantalet. long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- plantless — having no plants
- plantlets — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantsman — a nurseryman.
- plasma tv — a television set with a flat-panel screen containing many gas-filled cells that are converted into a plasma when subjected to an electric current, forming the pixels of the display.
- plasmatic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.