9-letter words containing s, l, i, p
- minipills — Plural form of minipill.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- mispickel — arsenopyrite.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- misspells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspell.
- mock lisp — The Lisp used by the Gosling Emacs editor.
- multilisp — (language) A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit concurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a "future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When the evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the value.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
- 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)
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nicopolis — city in ancient Epirus
- nilopolis — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- oil spill — an accidental release of oil into a body of water, as from a tanker, offshore drilling rig, or underwater pipeline, often presenting a hazard to marine life and the environment.
- olympiads — Plural form of olympiad.
- overspill — to spill over.
- paesiello — Giovanni [Italian jaw-vahn-nee] /Italian dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), Paisiello, Giovanni.
- paillasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- paisiello — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1741–1816, Italian composer.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- palisades — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palliasse — Chiefly British. a mattress of straw; pallet.
- 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.
- palsylike — resembling palsy
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- panlogism — the doctrine that the universe is a realization or act of the logos.
- papillose — full of papillae.
- 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.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- paschal i — died a.d. 824, pope 817–824.
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pass-fail — a system of grading in some educational institutions in which a student simply passes or fails instead of receiving a letter or numerical grade.
- passingly — in passing; in a passing manner
- passional — of, relating to, or marked by passion.
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses