9-letter words containing s, p, o, n, r
- personnel — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pervasion — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- 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)
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pinedrops — a slender, leafless, parasitic North American plant, Pterospora andromedea, having nodding white to red flowers, found growing under pines.
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- post horn — a straight or coiled copper or brass horn with no valves or slide, originally used to announce mail coaches.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- precensor — to censor (a film, play, book, etc) before its publication
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- prehensor — a part that grasps
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- profaners — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- prognoses — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prognosis — Medicine/Medical. a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- propontis — Marmara
- proposing — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- responded — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- responder — a person or thing that responds.
- responser — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responses — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- responsor — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- rhodopsin — a bright-red photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the retina of certain fishes and most higher vertebrates: it is broken down by the action of dim light into retinal and opsin.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.