9-letter words containing s, p, i, n, e
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- new spain — the former Spanish possessions in the Western Hemisphere, at one time including South America (except Brazil), Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, Florida, and most of the land in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- nine-spot — a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- nipcheese — a ship's purser
- nippiness — The condition of being nippy.
- nipponese — Japanese
- noscapine — (biochemistry) A benzylisoquinoline alkaloid obtained from plants of the Papaveraceae family, primarily used for its antitussive effects.
- nosepiece — the part of a frame for eyeglasses that passes over the bridge of the nose.
- open side — the side of the scrum on which the majority of the backs are ranged
- opsonized — Simple past tense and past participle of opsonize.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- paintress — a female painter
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- panderism — the work of a pander
- panegoism — a form of scepticism; subjective idealism
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- parenesis — exhortation; admonition
- passerine — of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- 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.
- peakiness — peaked2 .
- 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
- pedantism — pedantry.
- pekingese — one of a Chinese breed of small dogs having a long, silky coat.
- pelasgian — of or relating to the Pelasgians.
- pelmanism — a system of training to improve the memory
- penalised — to subject to a penalty, as a person.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- peninsula — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- penis war — (jargon, abuse) (Or "Dick Size War", "DSW") Any argument which has degenerated into quantitative boasting of the sort "My [program|bot|etc.] is [faster|meaner|etc.] than yours!". Generally as unconstructive (and with as little emphasis on empirical proof) as men debating who has the biggest penis. The term is often used on IRC, news:alt.sysadmin.recovery, and sometimes applied to IRC botwars, because of their equally pointless nature.
- penistone — a coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes
- pennalism — a system of mild oppression and torment practised upon first-year students of German Protestant universities in the 17th century
- penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- pensioner — a person who receives or lives on a pension.
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- peppiness — energetic; vigorous; lively.