9-letter words containing o, p, e
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interpone — to interpose
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- iodophile — taking an intense iodine stain
- ionopause — the transitional zone between the ionosphere and the mesosphere.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- ipso jure — by the law itself; by operation of law.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- 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.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- jasperous — Containing jasper, composed of jasper.
- jeoparded — Simple past tense and past participle of jeopard.
- jeoparder — a person who puts in jeopardy
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- joseph ii — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- joypopper — a person who takes addictive drugs occasionally without becoming addicted
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- keep cool — avoid getting hot
- keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- keep from — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- knee drop — a wrestling attack in which a wrestler lifts his or her opponent and drops him or her onto his or her bent knee
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- laypeople — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.