9-letter words containing s, p, u, n
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- piousness — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plus sign — the symbol (+) indicating summation or a positive quality.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- poisonous — full of or containing poison: poisonous air; a poisonous substance.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- pond scum — any free-floating freshwater alga that forms a green scum on water.
- ponderous — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- press run — the number of copies (of a book, newspaper, etc) printed during a continuous printing session
- presuming — presumptuous.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- 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.
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pubescent — arriving or arrived at puberty.
- pudendous — shameful
- pugginess — stumpiness
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- punchless — having no punch
- punishing — causing or characterized by harsh or injurious treatment; severe; brutal: The storm was accompanied by punishing winds.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- pursiness — the state of being pursy
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- pushiness — obnoxiously forward or self-assertive.
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- queenship — the state, office, or dignity of a queen.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- resuspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food