9-letter words containing s, t, p, i
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isopolity — equal rights of citizenship, as in different communities; mutual political rights.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- isotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jump suit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- jumpsuits — Plural form of jumpsuit.
- king post — a structural member running vertically between the apex and base of a triangular roof truss.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- lick-spit — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
- lightship — a ship anchored in a specific location and displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships, as in avoiding dangerous areas. Abbreviation: LS.
- lipoplast — a small particle in plant cytoplasm, esp that of seeds, in which fat is stored
- lipsticks — Plural form of lipstick.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- lymphitis — (archaic) lymphadenopathy.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- misprints — Plural form of misprint.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- mistyping — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- multilisp — (language) A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit concurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a "future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When the evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the value.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nightspot — a nightclub.
- nine-spot — a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- off-piste — of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs
- offprints — Plural form of offprint.
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- opisthion — (anatomy) The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.