9-letter words containing s, i, n, u, p
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- 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
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- piousness — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plus sign — the symbol (+) indicating summation or a positive quality.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pugginess — stumpiness
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- punishing — causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal: The storm was accompanied by punishing winds.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pushiness — obnoxiously forward or self-assertive.
- queenship — the state, office, or dignity of a queen.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spirulina — any of the blue-green algae of the genus Spirulina, sometimes added to food for its nutrient value.
- split run — a pressrun, as that of a newspaper or magazine, which is interrupted after the running of a specified number of copies to permit the substitution of type or of a cut, as in a keyed advertisement: a device for testing the relative effectiveness of different versions of an advertisement.
- spondulix — money; cash.
- spongious — spongy or relating to a sponge
- spring up — If something springs up, it suddenly appears or begins to exist.
- spun silk — yarn produced by spinning silk waste and short, broken filaments from which the sericin has been removed. Compare reeled silk.
- sputnik 1 — an unmanned Soviet satellite launched in 1957, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- superfine — extra fine, as in grain or texture; unusually fine: superfine sugar.
- supermind — an exceptional mind
- supermini — the fastest and most powerful type of minicomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with mainframes.
- superthin — extremely thin
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.