9-letter words containing a, p, r, e, t
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- firetraps — Plural form of firetrap.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- foreparts — Plural form of forepart.
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- gather up — collect
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- grapetree — any of various plants of the genus Coccoloba, esp C. uvifera, a shrubby plant resembling a grapevine
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- great ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- grip tape — adhesive tape used for friction
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- impetrate — to obtain by entreaty.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- imprecate — to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interpage — to print (matter) on intervening pages
- interpeak — Between peaks.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jasperite — Jasper (the gem).
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keg party — a beer bust.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- la trappe — La Trappe.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.