9-letter words containing o, p, e
- get up to — do: sth mischievous
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gomphoses — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- good hope — Cape of Good Hope.
- goodspeed — Edgar Johnson, 1871–1962, U.S. Biblical scholar and translator.
- gooped up — sticky with goop
- goopiness — the quality of being goopy
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- goosestep — Alternative form of goose-step.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gospelers — Plural form of gospeler.
- gospelise — evangelise
- gospelize — Preach the Gospel to; convert to Christianity.
- gospeller — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- gosperism — /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life.
- gossipers — Plural form of gossiper.
- gossipped — idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- gossipper — a person who gossips
- gossypine — relating to cotton
- gossypose — raffinose.
- gowpenful — an amount that can be contained in cupped hands
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- group sex — sexual activity involving three or more people
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- groupmate — A member of the same group.
- groupware — software that allows users on a network to work together and communicate effectively: Our company uses groupware to share files, databases, calendars, and email.
- groupwise — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
- gruppetto — a turn
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- haanepoot — a type of white wine made from the Hanepoot grape
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- happen on — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- happen to — chance to