9-letter words containing s, p, r, y
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- prolusory — serving for prolusion.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prosopyle — (in sponges) a pore through which water is drawn from the outside into one of the saclike chambers formed by the evagination of the body wall.
- provisory — containing a proviso or condition; conditional.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- purposely — intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyrolysis — the subjection of organic compounds to very high temperatures.
- pyroscope — an instrument for measuring the temperature of a heat source
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- raspberry — the fruit of any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family, consisting of small and juicy red, black, or pale yellow drupelets forming a detachable cap about a convex receptacle.
- raspingly — harsh; grating: a rasping voice.
- redisplay — to display again
- reposedly — in a settled or reposed fashion
- respecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- rompishly — in a rompish manner
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- scrapyard — A scrapyard is a place where old machines such as cars or ships are destroyed and where useful parts are saved.
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- septenary — of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- serpentry — the collective body of serpents; serpents as a whole
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- spagyrist — an alchemist
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- sparingly — economical (often followed by in or of).
- sparsedly — in a scattered manner
- spiny rat — any of various ratlike rodents of the genus Echimys, inhabiting forests of Central and South America, most having bristly fur.
- spirality — the spiral nature of a curve
- spirogyra — a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga of the genus Spirogyra.
- splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
- spluttery — tending to splutter: spluttery fire sparks.
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- sporogony — (in certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of an encysted zygote or oocyte, resulting in the formation of sporozoites.
- spray can — a small can whose contents are in aerosol form. Compare aerosol bomb.
- spray gun — a device consisting of a container from which paint or other liquid is sprayed through a nozzle by air pressure from a pump.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spun yarn — yarn produced by spinning fibers into a continuous strand.
- spymaster — an espionage agent who directs a network of subordinate agents.
- sulphuryl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group, =SO2
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.