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9-letter words containing s, i, d, e, t, p

  • pesticide — a chemical preparation for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.
  • posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
  • postrider — (formerly) a person who rode post; a mounted mail carrier.
  • practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
  • predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
  • predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
  • president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
  • put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
  • redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
  • septemfid — divided into seven
  • side step — a step to one side, as in dancing, skiing, or boxing.
  • side trip — a brief excursion off the main route of an itinerary, as to visit a particular person or place.
  • speediest — characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
  • spermatid — Cell Biology. one of the cells that result from the meiotic divisions of a spermatocyte and mature into spermatozoa.
  • split end — an offensive end who lines up some distance outside the formation on the line of scrimmage as a pass receiver.
  • standpipe — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to obtain a required head.
  • stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
  • stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
  • stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
  • stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • stupidest — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
  • therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
  • tidepools — tidal pool.
  • top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
  • unstriped — not striped; nonstriated, as muscular tissue.
  • upstirred — disturbed; in a commotion
  • vide post — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see after
  • windswept — open or exposed to the wind: a wind-swept beach.
  • woodspite — the green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis
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