9-letter words containing o, p, t, e
- tex point — (unit, text) The variant of the point used by TeX, equal to 0.3514598035 mm, or 1/72.27 inch.
- textphone — A textphone is a telephone with a screen and a keyboard, designed for people with hearing problems.
- the mopes — low spirits
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- theopathy — religious emotion excited by the contemplation of God.
- theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
- theophany — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- thiophene — a water-insoluble, colorless liquid, C 4 H 4 S, resembling benzene, occurring in crude coal-tar benzene: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- tide pool — tidal pool.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- time copy — written material set in type and held for future use. Compare filler (def 5).
- time-poor — lacking spare time or leisure time
- tippy-toe — tiptoe
- tiptoeing — the tip or end of a toe.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- toe-piece — the forward part of the device fixed to a ski to grip a ski boot, for either water skiing or snow skiing
- tone poem — an instrumental composition intended to portray a particular story, scene, mood, etc.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tooled up — an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top-dress — to manure (land) on the surface.
- top-heavy — having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- top-level — at a high level: a top-level conference.
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- top-rated — A top-rated show or service is the most successful or highly regarded of its kind.
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- topectomy — excision of part of the cerebral cortex for the relief of unmanageable pain or especially as a treatment for certain mental disorders.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- topometry — the measurement of the surface features of a region
- torpedoed — a self-propelled, cigar-shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying surface vessels or other submarines.
- torpedoer — someone or something that launches a torpedo
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- toxaphene — an amber, waxy, water-insoluble solid, whose principal constituent is chlorinated camphene, used as an insecticide and as a rodenticide.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- tree post — king post (def 1).
- treponema — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- trimphone — a phone designed in the 1960s
- tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
- tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
- trollopee — a loose dress or gown worn in the 18th century by women
- tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.