9-letter words containing s, t, a, n, o
- outstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outstand.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstand — overreach (def 13).
- oysterman — a person who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- pad stone — a stone template.
- panoistic — (of insects) producing ova without cells to nurse them
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pantofles — a slipper.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- part song — a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- pastedown — the leaf of an endpaper that is pasted to the inside of the front or back cover of a book.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- patroness — a woman who protects, supports, or sponsors someone or something.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patterson — Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") 1884–1948, U.S. newspaper editor and publisher.
- pentosans — any of a class of polysaccharides that occur in plants, humus, etc., and form pentoses upon hydrolysis.
- peronista — Peronist.
- personate — to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- photoscan — to study the distribution of a radioactive isotope or radiopaque dye in (a body organ or part) through the use of x-rays.
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pointsman — a railway switchman.
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- postnatal — subsequent to childbirth: postnatal infection.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postwoman — female postal worker
- 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.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
- saltation — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.