9-letter words containing s, p, i, r, l
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pelorised — affected by peloria
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- perilless — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- pharsalia — a district in ancient Greece whose chief city was Pharsalus.
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- pile arms — to prop a number of rifles together, muzzles together and upwards, butts forming the base
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- piroplasm — babesia.
- pis aller — the last resort or the final resource.
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pluralism — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- polisario — an independence movement opposing Moroccan control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory that Morocco annexed in stages beginning in 1976.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- presenile — pertaining to or exhibiting the characteristics of presenility; prematurely old.
- presidial — presidential
- presignal — to signal in advance
- priceless — having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
- 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.
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- priscilla — a female given name: from a Roman family name.
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.