9-letter words containing s, u, t, a, p
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pant suit — women's shirt and trousers
- pastorium — a Baptist parsonage.
- pasturage — pasture.
- 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.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- perfusate — a fluid pumped or flowing through an organ or tissue.
- peripatus — any of a genus of wormlike arthropods having a segmented body and short unjointed limbs: belonging to the phylum Onychophora
- pertusate — stabbed or perforated at the top
- phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plaustral — relating to wagons
- 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.
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postulata — things postulated
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- potassium — a silvery-white metallic element that oxidizes rapidly in the air and whose compounds are used as fertilizer and in special hard glasses. Symbol: K; atomic weight: 39.102; atomic number: 19; specific gravity: 0.86 at 20°C.
- poutassou — a gadoid fish, Micromesistius poutassou, also known as the blue whiting
- preadjust — that aids in preadjusting, that makes later adjusting easier by advance preparation
- pretarsus — the terminal outgrowth of the tarsus of an arthropod.
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- prussiate — a ferricyanide or ferrocyanide.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- pustulant — causing the formation of pustules.
- pustulate — to cause to form pustules.
- put aside — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rapturist — a person who goes into raptures, an enthusiast
- rapturous — full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sauté pan — a pan used for sautéing food
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- separatum — a reprint of an article separately from the magazine, journal, or book in which it was originally published; an offprint
- septarium — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.