9-letter words containing o, p, t, e
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
- azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
- belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
- betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- bode plot — A Bode plot is the graph of amplitude (in decibels) and phase against frequency (in logarithmic format).
- body type — type used in the main text of printed matter, generally less than 14 points.
- bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- 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
- bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacoepist — One who engages in cacoepy, especially frequently.
- cajeputol — cineole.
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
- cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- caponette — a capon produced by the administration of a synthetic sex hormone.
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- capstones — Plural form of capstone.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clodpated — stupid
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- coadapted — adapted to one another
- coemption — the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity
- coffeepot — A coffeepot is a tall, narrow pot with a spout and a lid, in which coffee is made or served.
- cold type — typesetting done by a method other than the casting of molten type
- coleopter — an aircraft that has an annular wing with the fuselage and engine on the centre line