9-letter words containing s, e, t, n, a
- pasternak — Boris Leonidovich [bawr-is,, bohr-,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs,, ˈboʊr-,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel prize.
- pastiness — the quality of being pasty.
- pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- patiences — a female given name.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- peasantry — peasants collectively.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- peg pants — close-fitting trousers made of stretch fabric
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- pentosans — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peronista — Peronist.
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- pett scan — PET scan
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- 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.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- praeneste — ancient name of Palestrina.
- prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
- quaintest — Superlative form of quaint.
- quantiles — Plural form of quantile.
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quantizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quantize.
- quarterns — Plural form of quartern.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- ranterism — a radical 17th-century Christian doctrine based on a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit and disregard of formal worship
- rat snake — any of several New and Old World colubrid snakes, of the genus Elaphe, that feed chiefly on small mammals and birds.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- reinstate — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- resistant — resisting.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- restaging — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- restained — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- restating — to state again or in a new way.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- sabbatine — of or relating to Saturdays
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sagenitic — relating to sagenite