9-letter words containing s, p, i, n, o
- posttonic — immediately following a stressed syllable: a posttonic syllable; a posttonic vowel.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognosis — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- propontis — Marmara
- proposing — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- rhodopsin — a bright-red photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the retina of certain fishes and most higher vertebrates: it is broken down by the action of dim light into retinal and opsin.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- salpingo- — indicating the Fallopian tubes
- sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
- scopoline — a soluble crystalline alkaloid obtained from the decomposition of scopolamine and used as a sedative. Formula: C8H13NO2
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
- shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- sinophile — a person who admires or has a strong liking for China, the Chinese, or their culture.
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- siphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- skip zone — a region surrounding a broadcasting station that cannot receive transmissions either directly or by reflection off the ionosphere
- slipnoose — a noose with a knot that slides along the rope, thus forming a noose that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- slop sink — a deep sink for emptying slop pails and the like.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- sopranino — a musical instrument, as a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class.
- spiniform — like a thorn or spine