9-letter words containing s, e, p, t, n, i
- snake pit — a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- 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.
- specint92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of integer benchmarks from SPEC (geometric mean of the 6 SPEC ratios of CINT92) which can be used to estimate a machine's single-tasking performance on integer code. SPECint92 obsoletes SPECint89. See also SPECbase_int92.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
- splenitis — inflammation of the spleen
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- split end — an offensive end who lines up some distance outside the formation on the line of scrimmage as a pass receiver.
- split-new — brand-new
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- springlet — a small spring of water.
- sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
- standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
- steepling — an ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building, etc.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- step into — enter
- stephanie — a female given name.
- stephen i — Saint, died a.d. 257? pope 254–257.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- superthin — extremely thin
- sweptwing — (of an aircraft, winged missile, etc.) having sweptback wings.
- thaneship — thanage.
- time span — duration, period
- timespans — a span of time; time frame.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
- unstriped — not striped; nonstriated, as muscular tissue.
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- windswept — open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
- wrest pin — peg (def 5).