9-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- sporocarp — (in higher fungi, lichens, and red algae) a multicellular structure in which spores form; a fruiting body.
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- spot cash — an amount of money paid immediately in cash
- spout cup — a deep vessel used in feeding babies and invalids, having a long, curved, rising spout.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stockport — borough of Greater Manchester, in NW England.
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- sun porch — a windowed porch or porchlike room having more window than wall area, intended to receive large amounts of sunlight.
- supercoil — superhelix.
- supercold — extremely cold
- supercool — to cool (a liquid) below its freezing point without producing solidification or crystallization; undercool.
- superjock — an extremely athletic person
- susceptor — a piece of metallic film on a package of microwaveable food that helps cook and brown the food by producing and concentrating energy on the food's outer surface.
- suspicion — act of suspecting.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympatico — simpatico
- symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
- symposiac — of, relating to, or suitable for a symposium.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- 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.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- top-class — Top-class means among the finest of its kind.
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- topstitch — to sew a line of stitches on the face side of (a garment or the like) alongside a seam.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- truckstop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
- tuck shop — a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
- tuck-shop — a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
- uncopious — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- usucapion — the acquisition of property through long, undisturbed possession.
- utopistic — utopianism.
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- whipstock — the handle of a whip.
- woodchips — Plural form of woodchip.
- woodchops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of woodchop.
- woolpacks — Plural form of woolpack.
- workspace — space used or required for one's work, as in an office or home.
- zooscopic — of or relating to zooscopy
- zoosporic — Having or pertaining to zoospores.
- zymoscope — A zymometer.