9-letter words containing s, p, i, t
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hepaticas — Plural form of hepatica.
- hepatitis — inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.
- high spot — The high spot of an event or activity is the most exciting or enjoyable part of it.
- high tops — denoting a sneaker that covers the ankle.
- high-step — to walk or run by raising the legs higher than normal.
- hip boots — waders: thigh-high rubber boots
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hospitium — a hospice.
- hypaspist — a shield bearer, especially one of a special unit of light infantry in the Macedonian army.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotist — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- impasting — Present participle of impaste.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- impatiens — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, having irregular flowers in which the calyx and corolla are not clearly distinguishable and bearing fruit that bursts open to scatter the seeds.
- impeticos — to put in a pocket
- impetuous — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- impetuses — Plural form of impetus.
- impieties — Plural form of impiety.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposting — a tax; tribute; duty.
- impostors — Plural form of impostor.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- in a spot — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- 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.
- inaptness — Quality of being inapt.
- 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.
- insipient — lack of wisdom; foolishness.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- 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.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented