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9-letter words containing a, t, o, p

  • autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
  • autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  • autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
  • autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
  • autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
  • autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
  • autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
  • auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
  • azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
  • azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
  • baby spot — a small spotlight, usually 250–400 watts, used to highlight a specific section of a stage setting or acting area.
  • backstops — Plural form of backstop.
  • ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
  • barotropy — a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
  • betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
  • bicompact — compact1 (def 7).
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
  • blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
  • boat trip — a trip in a boat
  • body part — a part of a human body
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
  • bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
  • boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
  • bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
  • cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
  • cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
  • cacotopia — a dystopia
  • cajeputol — cineole.
  • cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
  • calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
  • campstool — a lightweight folding stool
  • cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
  • capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
  • cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
  • caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • capotasto — capo1 .
  • capstones — Plural form of capstone.
  • captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
  • captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
  • cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
  • cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
  • cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
  • catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
  • catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
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