9-letter words containing s, p, i, n, e
- 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.
- impose on — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- in person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- 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.
- in specie — coined money; coin.
- in-person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
- ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- insipient — lack of wisdom; foolishness.
- inspanned — Simple past tense and past participle of inspan.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- inspirers — Plural form of inspirer.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- jaspidean — containing or resembling jasper
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- jumpiness — The state of being jumpy.
- kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- 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.
- lippiness — the characteristic of being excessively outspoken or brash
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- loopiness — The state or condition of being loopy; craziness.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- 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.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- messapian — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misspends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspend.
- misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.