9-letter words containing e, p, s, t
- superette — a grocery store with some of the self-service features of a supermarket.
- superfast — very or extremely fast
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- supermart — a large self-service store selling food and household supplies
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- supernate — a supernatant liquid
- superport — a deepwater port, often one built offshore, capable of accommodating very large ships, especially supertankers of 100,000 tons or more.
- supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
- supersoft — exceptionally soft
- superstar — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
- superstud — a highly virile man
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- supertask — a paradox resulting from the notion that a task requiring an infinite number of steps could be performed in a finite time by halving the duration of each step.
- superthin — extremely thin
- supertram — a tram with greater capacity and speed than conventional trams
- supporter — a person or thing that supports.
- suppurate — to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
- susceptor — a piece of metallic film on a package of microwaveable food that helps cook and brown the food by producing and concentrating energy on the food's outer surface.
- suspected — illness: unconfirmed
- swap meet — a fair or bazaar where objects, usually secondhand, are bartered or sold.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweet pea — a climbing plant, Lathyrus odoratus, of the legume family, having sweet-scented flowers.
- sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- sweptwing — (of an aircraft, winged missile, etc.) having sweptback wings.
- sylleptic — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- synaptase — a compound present in almonds and other oily seeds
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- taperness — the state or quality of being a taper or tapered
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- tearstrip — the part of packaging that may be easily torn to open it
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- 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.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- temps lie — a series of systematized and connected arm and leg movements done for practice.
- temptress — a woman who tempts, entices, or allures.
- ten-speed — a system of gears having ten forward gear ratios, especially on a bicycle.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- textspeak — a form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications, characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
- thaneship — thanage.
- the gapes — a disease of young poultry and birds, characterized by gasping and choking and caused by gapeworms
- the mopes — low spirits
- the pipes — the bagpipes
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- the press — the printed media
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place