9-letter words containing s, p, e, c, i
- parecious — paroicous.
- patiences — a female given name.
- pecksniff — a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to.
- pectinose — arabinose.
- pecunious — having plenty of money; wealthy
- pediculus — a louse
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- perceives — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- pesticide — a chemical preparation for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.
- phenetics — classification of organisms based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent.
- phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- physicked — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- pickiness — extremely fussy or finicky, usually over trifles.
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pieceless — without any pieces
- piecewise — denoting that a function has a specified property, as smoothness or continuity, on each of a finite number of pieces into which its domain is divided: a piecewise continuous function; a piecewise differentiable curve.
- pietistic — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- piscivore — an animal that feeds on fish
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- poeticism — a poetic expression that has become hackneyed, forced, or artificial.
- poimenics — pastoral theology.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- 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.
- praiseach — a type of porridge made with oatmeal
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- precising — a concise summary.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- precrisis — occurring or existing before a crisis; of or pertaining to the period preceding a crisis
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prentices — a male given name.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescious — prescient
- prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.