9-letter words containing s, p, l, a, t
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- pantalets — Sometimes, pantalet. long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pastiglia — a plaster used during the Italian Renaissance for bas-relief ornament of furniture, being applied in layers, molded, carved, and gilded.
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- plantless — having no plants
- plantlets — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plantsman — a nurseryman.
- plasma tv — a television set with a flat-panel screen containing many gas-filled cells that are converted into a plasma when subjected to an electric current, forming the pixels of the display.
- plasmatic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plastered — drunk.
- plasterer — builder or decorator who applies plaster
- plasticky — made of or resembling plastic
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- plastisol — a dispersion of resin in a plasticizer, forming a liquid or paste that gels when heated.
- plateless — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platelets — a small platelike body, especially a blood platelet.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- plaustral — relating to wagons
- play-list — a list of the recordings to be played on the radio during a particular program or time period, often including their sequence, duration, etc.
- pleatless — having no pleats
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- 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.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.