9-letter words containing t, e, l, s, i
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- qualities — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
- quantiles — Plural form of quantile.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- quintiles — Plural form of quintile.
- re-enlist — to (cause to) re-enter into an engagement to serve in the armed forces
- realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- recyclist — a person who recycles
- reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- resilient — springing back; rebounding.
- resolicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- resulting — to spring, arise, or proceed as a consequence of actions, circumstances, premises, etc.; be the outcome.
- retailers — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- rightless — lacking rights
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rillettes — an appetizer made usually of pork or goose meat that is diced, seasoned, cooked, and then pounded or ground to the consistency of a spread.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salimeter — salinometer.
- salt mine — a mine from which salt is excavated.
- saltiness — tasting of or containing salt; saline.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sassolite — the mineral form of boric acid found in the saline deposits of the hot springs near Sasso in Tuscany, H3BO3
- satellite — Astronomy. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
- satelloid — a low-altitude satellite using engines with small thrust to maintain its orbit.
- scaletail — a squirrel in the family Anomaluridae possessing scales on the underside of the tail
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- scheelite — calcium tungstate, CaWO 4 , usually occurring in tetragonal crystals: an important ore of tungsten.