9-letter words containing a, t, o, p
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stop bath — an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympatico — simpatico
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- table top — A table top is the flat surface on a table.
- table-hop — to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables.
- talbotype — calotype.
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tamponade — Medicine/Medical. the use of a tampon, as to stop a hemorrhage.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- tape echo — a means of delaying the repeat of a sound by adjusting the time lapse between the recording and playback heads of a tape recorder
- tape loop — loop1 (sense 6)
- taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- taphonomy — the circumstances and processes of fossilization.
- targa top — a removable hard roof on a motor car
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- theopathy — religious emotion excited by the contemplation of God.
- theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
- theophany — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)
- tocopilla — a seaport in N Chile.
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- top whack — the maximum price
- top-class — Top-class means among the finest of its kind.
- top-heavy — having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- top-rated — A top-rated show or service is the most successful or highly regarded of its kind.
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- topically — pertaining to or dealing with matters of current or local interest: a topical reference.
- topmaking — the art or science of blending wool to meet certain specifications