9-letter words containing s, p, a, i
- impatiens — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, having irregular flowers in which the calyx and corolla are not clearly distinguishable and bearing fruit that bursts open to scatter the seeds.
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- in a spin — swooning
- in a spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- in spades — a tool for digging, having an iron blade adapted for pressing into the ground with the foot and a long handle commonly with a grip or crosspiece at the top, and with the blade usually narrower and flatter than that of a shovel.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- isocarpic — having carpels equal in number to the other floral parts.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- issue par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jasperize — To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- landslips — Plural form of landslip.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.
- lip salve — an ointment which comes in a stick or small tub and which is applied to the lips to soothe dryness, chapping, etc
- lipoplast — a small particle in plant cytoplasm, esp that of seeds, in which fat is stored
- liposomal — Cell Biology. a microscopic artificial sac composed of fatty substances and used in experimental research of the cell.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- magmalisp — (language) The predecessor of Magma2.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- mainprise — (legal, historical) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- mansplain — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- manyplies — Omasum.