9-letter words containing s, p, e, y
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prosopyle — (in sponges) a pore through which water is drawn from the outside into one of the saclike chambers formed by the evagination of the body wall.
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- psychoses — a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- pussytoes — any of various woolly plants of the genus Antennaria
- puttyless — having no putty
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- pygostyle — the bone at the posterior end of the spinal column in birds, formed by the fusion of several caudal vertebrae.
- pyroscope — an instrument for measuring the temperature of a heat source
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- raspberry — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- redisplay — to display again
- reposedly — in a settled or reposed fashion
- respecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- sea poppy — horn poppy.
- self-pity — pity for oneself, especially a self-indulgent attitude concerning one's own difficulties, hardships, etc.: We must resist yielding to self-pity and carry on as best we can.
- septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
- septicity — pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- serpentry — the collective body of serpents; serpents as a whole
- sex-typed — characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other
- sisyphean — of or relating to Sisyphus.
- snipe fly — any of various predatory dipterous flies of the family Leptidae (or Rhagionidae), such as Rhagio scolopacea of Europe, having an elongated body and long legs
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- speakeasy — a saloon or nightclub selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.
- specially — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- specialty — a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
- speechify — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
- speechway — a pattern, style, or feature of spoken language shared by the people of a particular group or area.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- spy plane — an aircraft used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from a high altitude
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
- stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subdeputy — an assistant to a deputy
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.