9-letter words containing s, p, a, i
- 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
- pan-asian — of or relating to all Asian peoples.
- pancosmic — of every cosmos
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- 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.
- panoistic — (of insects) producing ova without cells to nurse them
- pansophic — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- pant suit — women's shirt and trousers
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- papillose — full of papillae.
- 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
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- paruresis — a psychological inability to urinate in the presence of others
- 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.
- passepied — a lively dance in triple meter popular in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- passingly — in passing; in a passing manner
- passional — of, relating to, or marked by passion.
- passivate — to treat (a metal) to render the surface less reactive chemically.
- passively — not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling.