9-letter words containing s, p, i, t
- pedantism — pedantry.
- peirastic — involving an experiment; experimental
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penistone — a coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- pepsinate — to treat, prepare, or mix with pepsin.
- peptidase — any of the class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of peptides or peptones to amino acids.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peristeri — a city in SE Greece, constituting part of Greater Athens.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- persisted — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- persister — to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pertussis — whooping cough.
- pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
- pestering — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pesticide — a chemical preparation for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- petrinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by, or attributed to, the apostle Peter.
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- pettitoes — pig's trotters, esp when used as food
- phenetics — classification of organisms based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phlebitis — inflammation of a vein, often occurring in the legs and involving the formation of a thrombus, characterized by swelling, pain, and change of skin color.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phosphite — (loosely) a salt of phosphorous acid.
- photodisk — a disk for use in a computer that contains photographs or can have photographs stored on it in a digitally coded manner
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- photopsia — a rare disease of the eye's retina that results in the perception of flashes of light
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- physicist — a scientist who specializes in physics.
- pianistic — relating to, characteristic of, or adaptable for the piano.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pietistic — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- pikestaff — the shaft of an infantry pike.
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.