9-letter words containing o, p, s
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- disemploy — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- dish soap — a detergent added to dishwater in order to clean dishes
- dispeople — to deprive of people; depopulate.
- dispondee — a double spondee
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disposals — Plural form of disposal.
- disposest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of dispose.
- disposeth — Archaic third-person singular form of dispose.
- disposing — Present participle of dispose.
- disposure — disposal; disposition.
- disprison — to release from prison
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- disproove — Obsolete form of disprove.
- disproval — The act of disproving; disproof.
- disproved — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
- disproven — Alternative irregular form of the Past participle of disprove.
- disprover — One who disproves.
- disproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disprove.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- docu-soap — a television documentary series in which the lives of the people filmed are presented as entertainment or drama
- docusoaps — Plural form of docusoap.
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
- doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
- doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
- dope test — test for drugs in body
- dopeheads — Plural form of dopehead.
- dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
- dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
- douzepers — the 12 great peers of the realm, seen as the symbolic heirs of Charlemagne's 12 chosen peers
- 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.
- drop pass — (in hockey and soccer) a pass in which a player in control of the ball or puck simply leaves it to be picked up by a trailing teammate and continues past it to draw off the defense.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drop-ship — to ship (goods) as a drop shipment: The books will be drop-shipped by the publisher to your home.
- dropkicks — Plural form of dropkick.
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- dry slope — an artificial ski slope used for tuition and practice