9-letter words containing i, o, n, p
- corn chip — a thin, crisp piece of snack food made from cornmeal.
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- couponing — the distribution or redemption of promotional coupons
- crepoline — a light silk or silk and wool material used in dressmaking
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cynophile — A person who loves canines; a dog lover.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- cyprinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cyprinoidea, a large suborder of teleost fishes including the cyprinids, characins, electric eels, and loaches
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- datapoint — An identifiable element in a data set.
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
- depletion — a depleting or being depleted
- deploring — Present participle of deplore.
- deploying — Present participle of deploy.
- deporting — Present participle of deport.
- dew point — the temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- diphthong — Phonetics. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
- diplontic — (of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- diplozoon — a type of parasitic flatworm that exists as a pair of worms fused together in an X shape. Diplozoa fuse after meeting as two juvenile individuals (genus Diporpae) and are parasitic on the gills of fish
- diruption — (archaic) disruption.
- dispondee — a double spondee
- disposing — Present participle of dispose.
- disprison — to release from prison
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- dolphinet — a female dolphin
- donepezil — a drug used to treat dementia
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- douppioni — an irregular silk thread reeled from two or more entangled cocoons and producing a coarse yarn generally used in fabrics such as shantung or pongee.
- downpipes — Plural form of downpipe.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- 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.
- dupondius — a coin of ancient Rome, equal to two asses.
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dyspnoeic — Alternative spelling of dyspneic.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- ectropion — A condition, typically a consequence of advanced age, in which the eyelid is turned outward away from the eyeball.
- emploring — Present participle of implore.
- employing — Present participle of employ.