9-letter words containing s, i, n, o, r, e
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- raffinose — a colorless, crystalline trisaccharide, C 1 8 H 3 2 O 1 6 ⋅5H 2 O, with little or no sweetness, occurring in the sugar beet, cottonseed, etc., and breaking down to fructose, glucose, and galactose on hydrolysis.
- reasoning — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- recension — an editorial revision of a literary work, especially on the basis of critical examination of the text and the sources used.
- recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- recognise — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- reconsign — to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- recursion — the process of defining a function or calculating a number by the repeated application of an algorithm.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- remission — the act of remitting.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- resinosis — excessive production and/or outflow of resin in conifers due to disease or damage
- resoiling — to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- reversion — the act of turning something the reverse way.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rockiness — the state or condition of a person who is shaky or unsteady, as from drinking, fatigue, or illness.
- romanised — to make Roman Catholic.
- roominess — affording ample room; spacious; large.
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- rosé wine — alcoholic drink: pink wine
- rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rosinweed — any coarse, North American, composite plant of the genus Silphium, having a resinous juice and stalkless, paired leaves.
- rowdiness — a rough, disorderly person.
- sanforize — to preshrink (cloth) permanently by a patented process before making garments
- sarcodine — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- sarcosine — a crystalline compound, C 3 H 7 NO 2 , with a sweet taste, soluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol: used in the manufacture of toothpaste, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.