9-letter words containing s, p, i, n, e, t
- pastiness — the quality of being pasty.
- patiences — a female given name.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pectinose — arabinose.
- pedantism — pedantry.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penistone — a coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phenetics — classification of organisms based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- pinsetter — a mechanical apparatus in a bowling alley that places all of the pins into position at one time and removes pins that have been knocked down.
- pinstripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pint-size — comparatively small in size: a pint-size typewriter.
- pipestone — a reddish argillaceous stone used by North American Indians for making tobacco pipes.
- pistareen — peseta (def 2).
- pithiness — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- prentices — a male given name.
- 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.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- reinspect — to inspect or examine again
- ripienist — an orchestral member who is there to swell the sound rather than play solo
- septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- septimana — a week.
- serpentis — genitive of Serpens.
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon