9-letter words containing a, r, e, p, s
- 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.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- 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
- bedspread — A bedspread is a decorative cover which is put over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- c-spanner — a sickle-shaped spanner having a projection at the end of the curve, used for turning large narrow nuts that have an indentation into which the projection on the spanner fits
- callipers — an instrument for measuring internal or external dimensions, consisting of two steel legs hinged together
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carapaces — Plural form of carapace.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- cassareep — the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- clepsydra — an ancient device for measuring time by the flow of water or mercury through a small aperture
- compadres — Plural form of compadre.
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- creamcups — a Californian papaveraceous plant, Platystemon californicus, with small cream-coloured or yellow flowers on long flower stalks
- crease up — If someone or something makes you crease up or creases you up, they make you laugh a lot.
- crispated — Crispate.
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- despaired — loss of hope; hopelessness.
- despairer — a person who despairs
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- disparage — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.