9-letter words containing o, c, t, p
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- incompact — not compact; loose.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- inotropic — influencing the contractility of muscular tissue.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- jack post — a post for supporting a floor beam, having two telescoping sections, adjustable to any height.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- klopstock — Friedrich Gottlieb [free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/ (Show IPA), 1724–1803, German poet.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lipolytic — Of or pertaining to lipolysis.
- lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
- locuplete — amply stocked
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- monopitch — having only one slope or a slope with a regular gradient
- monotypic — having only one type.
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- multicopy — any of several or many copies (of a book, document, record, etc)
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- nonpoetic — not poetic
- nootropic — (medicine) Any substance purported to increase cognitive abilities.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- objectpal — Object-oriented database language, part of Borland's MS-Windows version of Paradox.
- occipital — of, relating to, or situated near the occiput or the occipital bone.
- occupants — Plural form of occupant.
- octaploid — an organism that consists of eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- octapodic — (in poetic metre) having or consisting of eight feet
- octoploid — (genetics) having eight complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell.
- octopodes — (rare) Irregular plural form of octopus.
- octopuses — Plural form of octopus.
- octothorp — Another term for the pound sign ().
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- octupling — Present participle of octuple.
- off topic — away from the subject
- off-topic — not on the main topic; irrelevant to the discussion: to delete off-topic comments on a blog. Abbreviation: OT.
- oil patch — an area in which oil is produced.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.