9-letter words containing d, i, o, p, t
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- dolphinet — a female dolphin
- dot pitch — (hardware) The distance between a dot and the closest dot of the same colour (red, green or blue) on a color CRT. Dot pitch is typically from 0.28 to 0.51 mm but large presentation monitors may go up to 1.0 mm. The smaller the dot pitch, the crisper the image, 0.31 or less provides a sharp image, especially when displaying text. Dot pitch measurements between conventional tubes and Sony's Trinitron tubes are roughly, but not exactly comparable. Sony's CRTs use vertical stripes, not dots, and its measurement is the distance between stripes, not the diagonal distance between dots.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drop girt — a girt running beneath the ends of joists and at right angles to them.
- droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
- dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopias — Plural form of dystopia.
- end point — extremity
- endpoints — Plural form of endpoint.
- epidosite — a rock formed of quartz and epidote
- etoposide — (medicine) A derivative of podophyllotoxin that is used in the treatment of some cancers by inhibiting mitosis.
- exopodite — the outermost of the two projections on the hind legs of certain crustaceans
- expeditor — Alternative spelling of expediter.
- exploited — Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- herpetoid — reptilian, reptiliform
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnotoid — resembling or similar to hypnosis
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- idiotypic — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- midpoints — Plural form of midpoint.
- notopodia — Plural form of notopodium.
- octaploid — an organism that consists of eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- octapodic — (in poetic metre) having or consisting of eight feet
- octoploid — (genetics) having eight complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell.
- opiniated — Obsolete form of opinionated.
- oppilated — Simple past tense and past participle of oppilate.
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimized — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- pandation — the action of warping under weight
- pedorthic — (of footwear) designed to alleviate problems with feet, lower limbs, posture, etc
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- pentoxide — an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen, as phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 .
- perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- peridotic — of, relating to, or containing peridot
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- pholidota — the order comprising the pangolins.
- photodisk — a disk for use in a computer that contains photographs or can have photographs stored on it in a digitally coded manner
- phytocide — a substance or preparation for killing plants.
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pithecoid — belonging or pertaining to the genus Pithecia and related genera, including the saki monkeys.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- platinoid — resembling platinum: the platinoid elements.
- pointedly — having a point or points: a pointed arch.