9-letter words containing n, o, s, p
- cosponsor — a person, company, or other organization that is one of the two sponsors of an event or initiative
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- 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
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- deponents — Plural form of deponent.
- desponded — Simple past tense and past participle of despond.
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dispondee — a double spondee
- disposing — Present participle of dispose.
- disprison — to release from prison
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- downpipes — Plural form of downpipe.
- downplays — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downplay.
- downpours — Plural form of downpour.
- downslope — A downward slope.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- downswept — curved downwards
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dupondius — a coin of ancient Rome, equal to two asses.
- dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dyspnoeal — Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea.
- dyspnoeic — Alternative spelling of dyspneic.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- egg spoon — a small spoon for eating a boiled egg
- encompass — Surround and have or hold within.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- endoplasm — The more fluid, granular inner layer of the cytoplasm in ameboid cells.
- endoscope — An instrument that can be introduced into the body to give a view of its internal parts.
- endoscopy — (medicine) the examination of a bodily orifice, canal or organ using an endoscope.
- endosperm — The part of a seed that acts as a food store for the developing plant embryo, usually containing starch with protein and other nutrients.
- endospore — A resistant asexual spore that develops inside some bacteria cells.
- endpoints — Plural form of endpoint.
- engyscope — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a microscope
- entoptics — the study of entoptic visions
- entrepots — Plural form of entrepot.
- entropies — Plural form of entropy.
- envelopes — Plural form of envelope.
- epigenous — growing on the surface, esp the upper surface, of an organism or part
- epigonism — An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation.
- epigynous — (of flowers) having the receptacle enclosing and fused with the gynoecium so that the other floral parts arise above it
- eponymous — (of a person) giving their name to something.