9-letter words containing s, i, r, p
- morphisms — Plural form of morphism.
- morphosis — the sequence or manner of development or change in an organism or any of its parts.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- myriapods — Plural form of myriapod.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- occupiers — Plural form of occupier.
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- offspring — children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outspring — to spring out
- outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- outstrips — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstrip.
- overpoise — the action of weighing down on something
- overspice — to add too much spice to
- overspill — to spill over.
- oviparous — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- padronism — a system of exploitative work controlled by a padrone
- paintress — a female painter
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- paracusia — defective hearing.
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- paradisal — paradisiacal.
- paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- parasitic — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
- parataxis — the placing together of sentences, clauses, or phrases without a conjunctive word or words, as Hurry up, it is getting late! I came—I saw—I conquered.
- parcheesi — a modern board game derived from the ancient game of pachisi
- parecious — paroicous.
- parenesis — exhortation; admonition
- pargasite — a green or bluegreen variety of hornblende.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parkinson — a common neurologic disease believed to be caused by deterioration of the brain cells that produce dopamine, occurring primarily after the age of 60, characterized by tremors, especially of the fingers and hands, muscle rigidity, shuffling gait, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- parotitis — inflammation of a parotid.
- parrhesia — boldness or frankness of speech; the act of asking forgiveness for speaking in such a way
- parseeism — the religion and customs of the Parsees.
- parsimony — extreme or excessive economy or frugality; stinginess; niggardliness.
- parsonish — like a parson