9-letter words containing t, e, n, s, i, o
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- pipestone — a reddish argillaceous stone used by North American Indians for making tobacco pipes.
- point-set — (of spaces) cast in widths that conform to standard point measure.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pointwise — occurring at each point of a given set: pointwise convergence.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- sanbenito — an ornamented garment worn by a condemned heretic at an auto-da-fé.
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- sectional — pertaining or limited to a particular section; local or regional: sectional politics.
- seduction — an act or instance of seducing, especially sexually.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- seniority — the state of being senior; priority of birth; superior age.
- sensation — the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- seriation — the arrangement of a collection of artifacts into a chronological sequence.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- serotines — a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- serotonin — a neurotransmitter, derived from tryptophan, that is involved in sleep, depression, memory, and other neurological processes.
- serration — serrated condition or form.
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- sick note — proof of illness
- side tone — sound diverted from a telephone microphone to the earpiece so that a speaker hears his own voice at the same level and position as that of the respondent
- siltstone — a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- simeonite — a member of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- singleton — a person or thing occurring singly, especially an individual set apart from others.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- sixteenmo — Also called sextodecimo. a book size (about 4×6 in.; 10×15 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 16 leaves or 32 pages.
- sixty-one — a cardinal number, 60 plus 1.