9-letter words containing s, p, i, r, e
- prestiges — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- preterist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled. Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prettiest — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- priceless — having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
- priciness — the state of being pricey
- prideless — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- priestess — a woman who officiates in sacred rites.
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primaries — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- privacies — the state of being apart from other people or concealed from their view; solitude; seclusion: Please leave the room and give me some privacy.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- profiters — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proscribe — to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- proxemics — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pure lisp — A purely functional language derived from Lisp by excluding any feature which causes side-effects.
- purposive — having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
- purselike — resembling a purse
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- quipsters — Plural form of quipster.
- rainswept — (of a place) open to or characterized by frequent heavy rain
- raspiness — harsh; grating; rasping.
- redeposit — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- redisplay — to display again
- redispose — to rearrange; readjust
- redtapism — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- reinspect — to inspect or examine again
- reinspire — to inspire again or anew
- replenish — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.