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9-letter words containing s, a, p, i, e, n

  • pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
  • pistareen — peseta (def 2).
  • plainness — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
  • planeside — the area on either side of an airplane.
  • pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
  • polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
  • polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
  • preassign — to give or allocate; allot: to assign rooms at a hotel.
  • precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
  • presignal — to signal in advance
  • puissance — power, might, or force.
  • rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
  • raspiness — harsh; grating; rasping.
  • reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
  • sailplane — a very light glider that can be lifted by an upward current of air.
  • sand pile — a base for a footing in soft soil, made by compacting sand in a cavity left by a wooden pile.
  • sandpiper — any of numerous shore-inhabiting birds of the family Scolopacidae, related to the plovers, typically having a slender bill and a piping call.
  • sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
  • sappiness — abounding in sap, as a plant.
  • scarpines — an instrument for torturing feet
  • scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
  • 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.
  • septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
  • septimana — a week.
  • seraphine — an old reed-based keyboard instrument; a reed organ
  • 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.
  • 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
  • singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
  • siphonage — the action of a siphon.
  • siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
  • sisyphean — of or relating to Sisyphus.
  • snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
  • spaciness — the state of being spacey
  • spanaemia — a lack of red corpuscles in blood
  • spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
  • sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • speranski — Mikhail Mikhailovich (mixɑˈil). 1772–1839, Russian statesman, chief adviser (1807–12) to Alexander I. His greatest achievement was the codification of Russian law (begun 1826)
  • spiderman — a person who erects the steel structure of a building
  • spikenard — an aromatic, Indian plant, Nardostachys jatamansi, of the valerian family, believed to be the nard of the ancients.
  • spin wave — a magnetic wave propagated through a crystal lattice by a collective excitation of the spin angular momentum of electrons.
  • spinacene — a type of vaccine
  • spinebash — to rest; loaf.
  • spinnaker — a large, usually triangular sail carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind or when the wind is abaft the beam.
  • spinulate — having a spine or spines
  • standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
  • stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
  • stephanie — a female given name.
  • strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
  • subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
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