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9-letter words containing a, p, e, r

  • aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
  • aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
  • aspergill — An aspergillum.
  • aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
  • aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
  • aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
  • asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
  • aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
  • aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
  • atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • attempter — One who attempts.
  • au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
  • auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
  • autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
  • azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
  • azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
  • backer-up — a supporter; backer; second.
  • backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
  • bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
  • bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
  • bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
  • bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
  • barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
  • barkeeper — A barkeeper is someone who serves drinks behind a bar.
  • barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
  • baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
  • barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
  • base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
  • bear trap — snare to catch bears
  • bedspread — A bedspread is a decorative cover which is put over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.
  • below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
  • beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
  • bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
  • bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
  • blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
  • bog paper — toilet paper
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
  • bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
  • brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
  • breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
  • broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
  • bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
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