9-letter words containing s, p, a, i
- passivism — the quality of being passive.
- passivist — the quality of being passive.
- passivity — Also, passiveness [pas-iv-nis] /ˈpæs ɪv nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being passive.
- passivize — If you can passivize a verb or clause, or if it can passivize, you can put the verb in the passive voice.
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pasticcio — a pastiche.
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.
- pastiness — the quality of being pasty.
- pastitsio — a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pastosity — having a heavy impasto.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- patiences — a female given name.
- patissier — a person who makes pastries; a pastry chef
- patristic — of or relating to the fathers of the Christian church or their writings.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- pausanias — flourished a.d. c175, Greek traveler, geographer, and author.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pay raise — an increase in wages or salary
- paysagist — a painter of landscapes
- peakiness — peaked2 .
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- peiraievs — Greek name of Piraeus.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- pelopidas — died 364 b.c, Greek general and statesman of Thebes.
- penalised — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- peninsula — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periapsis — the closest point to a central body reached by a body in orbit
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- peronista — Peronist.
- perovskia — a member of the Perovskia genus of aromatic plant native to central Asia, esp Russian sage, Perovskia atriplicifolia
- perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group