9-letter words containing s, p, i, n
- in a spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- 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 spirit — If you say you are somewhere in spirit or with someone in spirit, you mean that although you are not with them, you feel as though you are with them because you are thinking about them a lot.
- in spurts — If something happens in spurts, there are periods of activity followed by periods in which it does not happen.
- in-person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- incompass — Archaic form of encompass.
- 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.
- insipidly — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- 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.
- inspiring — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- 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
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- isopycnic — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- japonicas — Plural form of japonica.
- 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.
- king post — a structural member running vertically between the apex and base of a triangular roof truss.
- kingklips — Plural form of kingklip.
- kingships — Plural form of kingship.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- 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
- landslips — Plural form of landslip.
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.
- 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.
- lily pons — Lily [lil-ee;; French lee-lee] /ˈlɪl i;; French liˈli/ (Show IPA), 1904–76, U.S. operatic soprano, born in France.
- linchpins — Plural form of linchpin.
- lindalisp — Linda for Lisp.
- lip-synch — the technical process by which this is done.