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9-letter words containing o, p, t, e, l

  • proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
  • ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  • ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
  • ptolemy i — (surnamed Soter) 367?–280 b.c, ruler of Egypt 323–285: founder of Macedonian dynasty in Egypt.
  • pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
  • pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
  • pygostyle — the bone at the posterior end of the spinal column in birds, formed by the fusion of several caudal vertebrae.
  • pyrolater — a worshipper of fire
  • rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
  • repletion — the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
  • replotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • reptiloid — having the form or shape of a reptile
  • rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
  • saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
  • scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
  • scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
  • sellotape — clear sticking tape
  • sepiolite — meerschaum (def 1).
  • septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six
  • simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
  • sleep out — live-out.
  • sleep-out — live-out.
  • sleepcoat — a lightweight, knee-length garment for sleep or lounging, styled like a pajama top and having a sash.
  • soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
  • soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
  • spell out — to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.): Did I spell your name right?
  • spilosite — a form of slate
  • splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
  • sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
  • sportless — without any sport
  • sporulate — to produce spores.
  • spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
  • spot-weld — to weld (two pieces of metal) together in a small area or spot by the application of heat and pressure.
  • spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
  • spoutless — having no spout
  • stepstool — a low set of hinged steps, often folding into or under a stool, used typically in a kitchen for reaching high shelves.
  • stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
  • stoppable — capable of being stopped.
  • stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
  • table top — A table top is the flat surface on a table.
  • table-hop — to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables.
  • talbotype — calotype.
  • tape loop — loop1 (sense 6)
  • telephone — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
  • telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
  • telephoto — noting or pertaining to telephotography.
  • telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
  • telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • telescopy — the use of the telescope.
  • telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
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