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9-letter words containing s, p, a, t, r

  • poetaster — an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.
  • pole star — Polaris.
  • pole-star — Polaris.
  • port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
  • port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.
  • post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
  • post road — (formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
  • postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
  • posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.
  • posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
  • pot roast — a dish of meat, usually brisket of beef or chuck roast, stewed in one piece in a covered pot and served in its own gravy.
  • practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
  • practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
  • practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
  • praeneste — ancient name of Palestrina.
  • prankster — a mischievous or malicious person who plays tricks, practical jokes, etc., at the expense of another.
  • pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
  • preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
  • predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
  • prelatess — a female prelate
  • prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
  • preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
  • pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
  • priapitis — inflammation of the penis.
  • prismatic — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
  • privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
  • privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
  • prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
  • prostasis — (in a classical temple) a pronaos or prostas before a cella.
  • prostatic — Also, prostatic [pro-stat-ik] /prɒˈstæt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the prostate gland.
  • prostato- — prostate gland
  • prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
  • 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.
  • protoavis — a fossil bird of the genus Protoavis, from the Triassic Period, having a birdlike, partly toothless jaw structure, a tail and hind legs resembling those of the dinosaur, and the hollow bones and keellike breast that are characteristic of modern birds: the oldest known avian type, preceding the archaeopteryx by an estimated 75 million years.
  • protostar — an early stage in the evolution of a star, after the beginning of the collapse of the gas cloud from which it is formed, but before sufficient contraction has occurred to permit initiation of nuclear reactions at its core.
  • proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
  • prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
  • psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
  • psoriatic — a common chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by scaly patches.
  • pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
  • pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
  • pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
  • rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
  • rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
  • rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
  • rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
  • rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
  • raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
  • redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
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