9-letter words containing e, p, s, t
- keep step — to remain walking, marching, dancing, etc, in unison or in a specified rhythm
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
- leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaplasm — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mistemper — to disorder or disturb
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- montespan — Marquise de (Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart) 1641–1707, mistress of Louis XIV of France.
- mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neophytes — Plural form of neophyte.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nepenthes — nepenthe.
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- netphones — Plural form of netphone.
- newsprint — a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
- nine-spot — a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- nonposted — Not having been posted (in various senses).
- nonstaple — not staple
- nonuplets — Plural form of nonuplet.
- octopodes — (rare) Irregular plural form of octopus.
- octopuses — Plural form of octopus.
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- off-piste — of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open-cast — open-cut.