9-letter words containing s, p, u, r, i
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- paruresis — a psychological inability to urinate in the presence of others
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pasturing — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- perfusion — the act of perfusing.
- perfusive — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- pertussis — whooping cough.
- 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
- picturise — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- pistorius — Oscar (Leonard Carl), born 1986, South African sprinter in races for below-the-knee amputees; winner of six Paralympic gold medals (2004–2012); found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (1983–2013)
- pittsburg — a city in W California.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pluralism — 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.
- 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.
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- posturise — to posture; pose.
- posturize — to posture; pose.
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- precieuse — one of the 17th-century literary women of France who affected an extreme care in the use of language.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusive — introductory.
- prescious — prescient
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prickspur — a spur having a single sharp goad or point.
- prisonous — resembling a prison
- procopius — a.d. c490–c562, Greek historian.
- profusion — abundance; abundant quantity.
- profusive — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- promuscis — the proboscis of some insects
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- proustite — a mineral, silver arsenic sulfide, Ag 3 AsS 3 , occurring in scarlet crystals and masses: a minor ore of silver; ruby silver.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- puerilism — childishness in the behavior of an adult.
- pulverise — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.