9-letter words containing s, n, a, p, o
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- 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.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- 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.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- salpingo- — indicating the Fallopian tubes
- san pablo — a city in the Philippines, on S Luzon.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
- sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- saxophone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a conical, usually brass tube with keys or valves and a mouthpiece with one reed.
- senna pod — a pod of any of various tropical plants of the leguminous genus Cassia, used in making laxatives
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- slant-top — (especially of a desk) having a slant front.
- slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- snap roll — a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a fast roll
- snap shot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snap-roll — to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
- snapshoot — to take a snapshot of (a subject).
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- soapstone — a massive variety of talc with a soapy or greasy feel, used for hearths, washtubs, tabletops, carved ornaments, etc.
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- span roof — a roof having two slopes of equal breadth and pitch meeting at a common ridge.
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spokesman — a person who speaks for another or for a group.
- spongebag — A spongebag is a small bag in which you keep things such as soap and a toothbrush when you are travelling.
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- spoonways — like spoons, esp by fitting together in the way that spoons do
- sporangia — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- sporozoan — any parasitic spore-forming protozoan of the phylum (or class) Sporozoa, several species of which, as plasmodia, cause malaria.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.