9-letter words containing a, p, t, e
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- operators — Plural form of operator.
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- operettas — Plural form of operetta.
- opinative — Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- opiniated — Obsolete form of opinionated.
- oppilated — Simple past tense and past participle of oppilate.
- optatives — Plural form of optative.
- orthopnea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outspeaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outspeak.
- outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overplant — to plant more than is necessary or possible to sustain
- p/e ratio — price-to-earnings ratio
- pa system — a combination of electronic devices that makes sound audible via loudspeakers to many people, as in an auditorium or out of doors.
- pachytene — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- pack date — the date on which a foodstuff was processed or packed, often shown on the package or label.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- pad stone — a stone template.
- paedeutic — of or relating to the study of teaching
- paediatry — the branch of medical science concerned with children and their diseases
- pageantry — spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation.
- paginated — to indicate the sequence of pages in (a book, manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; to number the pages of.
- paillette — a spangle for ornamenting a costume.
- paintable — easily painted
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- paintress — a female painter
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- palatable — acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory: palatable food.
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- palleting — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- palletize — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palmately — radiating from a central point
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- palpitate — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- panatella — panetella.
- panchetto — a Renaissance chair having three splayed legs and a shaped back joined into a solid wooden seat.
- pandurate — shaped like a fiddle, as a leaf.