9-letter words containing l, p, a, t
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- sprigtail — the pintail, Anas acuta.
- spritsail — a sail extended by a sprit.
- stampless — without a stamp
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- staphylo- — uvula
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- steel pan — steel drum.
- stipulate — to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for).
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- supersalt — a salt with an excess of acid over base
- supertalk — Silicon Beach Software. A superset of HyperTalk used in SuperCard.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- sympetaly — the condition of fused petals
- table top — A table top is the flat surface on a table.
- table-hop — to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables.
- tail-spin — spin (def 23).
- tailpiece — a piece added at the end; an end piece or appendage.
- tailplane — horizontal stabilizer.
- talbotype — calotype.
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- tap swirl — a device used to direct the flow of water from a tap in a sink
- tape loop — loop1 (sense 6)
- tarpaulin — a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.
- taxiplane — an airplane available for chartered or unscheduled trips.
- tea plate — a small plate sometimes placed to the side of a dinner plate, used for bread, cake, etc
- teacupful — as much as a teacup will hold, equal to 4 fluid ounces (113 grams).
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- telepathy — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- teleplasm — a hypothetical emanation from the body of a medium that serves as the means for telekinesis.
- 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.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- the apple — Big Apple
- tie clasp — an ornamental metal clasp for securing the two ends of a necktie to a shirt front.
- tie plate — a plate set between the base of a rail and a crosstie to distribute the rail load over a greater area of the tie and thus reduce wear and damage to it.
- time lamp — an oil lamp of the 17th and 18th centuries, burning at a fixed rate and having a reservoir graduated in units of time.
- tin plate — thin sheet of tin-coated iron, steel
- tin-plate — to coat (iron or steel sheet) with tin.