9-letter words containing s, e, p, a, r, t
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praeneste — ancient name of Palestrina.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatess — a female prelate
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- repeaters — a person or thing that repeats.
- replaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- rest camp — a camp where soldiers rest
- saltpeter — the form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , that occurs naturally, used in the manufacture of fireworks, fluxes, gunpowder, etc.; niter.
- saltpetre — the form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , that occurs naturally, used in the manufacture of fireworks, fluxes, gunpowder, etc.; niter.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- separated — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- separates — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- 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.
- septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
- set apart — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
- skatepark — A skatepark is an area that is designed for people to practise skateboarding.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- 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.
- sparterie — things made from esparto
- spartiate — a member of the ruling class of ancient Laconia; a Spartan citizen. Compare Helot (def 1), Perioeci.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang
- spattered — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
- spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spec rate — (benchmark) Results of the throughput measurement using SPEC benchmark suites CINT92 and CFP92. With the throughput measurement method, several copies of a given benchmark are executed. The method is particularly suitable for multiprocessor systems. The results, called SPEC rate, express how many jobs of a particular type (characterised by the individual benchmark) can be executed in a given time (The SPEC reference time happens to be a week, the execution times are normalized with respect to a VAX 11/780). The SPEC rates therefore characterise the capacity of a system for compute-intensive jobs of similar characteristics. See also SPEC ratio.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermatia — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatic — of, relating to, or resembling sperm; seminal; generative.
- spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
- spermato- — indicating sperm