9-letter words containing s, i, r, p
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognosis — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- promissor — (in law) one who makes a promise
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- propontis — Marmara
- proposing — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- proptosis — the forward displacement of an organ.
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proscript — a proscription or prohibition
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prosodist — an expert in prosody.
- prostasis — (in a classical temple) a pronaos or prostas before a cella.
- prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protistic — of or relating to the kingdom Protista
- protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- psoriasis — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pure lisp — A purely functional language derived from Lisp by excluding any feature which causes side-effects.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pyrolysis — the subjection of organic compounds to very high temperatures.
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- rajahship — the office or territory of a rajah