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9-letter words containing o, p, e, r

  • atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
  • azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
  • azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
  • bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
  • barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
  • barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
  • baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
  • barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
  • beer pong — a drinking game in which players attempt to throw Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer, which must then be drunk by their opponents
  • bell rope — a rope attached to a bell
  • below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
  • biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
  • blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
  • bog paper — toilet paper
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
  • bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
  • borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
  • boxkeeper — an attendant responsible for theatre boxes
  • broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
  • bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
  • bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
  • buoy rope — a rope attaching a buoy to its anchor
  • campeador — a champion
  • camporees — Plural form of camporee.
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  • cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
  • cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
  • cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • caprifole — honeysuckle
  • caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
  • caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
  • capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
  • cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
  • carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
  • carpooler — a member of a carpool
  • cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
  • caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
  • cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
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