9-letter words containing p, e, d, o, n
- endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
- endoplasm — The more fluid, granular inner layer of the cytoplasm in ameboid cells.
- endoproct — entoproct
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- endoscope — An instrument that can be introduced into the body to give a view of its internal parts.
- endoscopy — (medicine) the examination of a bodily orifice, canal or organ using an endoscope.
- endosperm — The part of a seed that acts as a food store for the developing plant embryo, usually containing starch with protein and other nutrients.
- endospore — A resistant asexual spore that develops inside some bacteria cells.
- endpoints — Plural form of endpoint.
- enveloped — Simple past tense and past participle of envelop.
- expand on — If you expand on or expand upon something, you give more information or details about it when you write or talk about it.
- exploding — Burst or shatter violently and noisily as a result of rapid combustion, decomposition, excessive internal pressure, or other process, typically scattering fragments widely.
- expounded — Simple past tense and past participle of expound.
- expounder — A person who expounds, explains.
- godparent — a godfather or godmother.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- impounded — Simple past tense and past participle of impound.
- impounder — One who impounds.
- indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- joined-up — In joined-up writing, you join all the letters in each word together, without taking your pen off the paper. This sort of writing is used by older children and adults.
- keep down — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- knee drop — a wrestling attack in which a wrestler lifts his or her opponent and drops him or her onto his or her bent knee
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- line drop — the decrease in voltage between two points on an electric line, often caused by resistance or leakage along the line.
- madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
- mappemond — a map of the world
- meropidan — any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae
- monkeypod — a tropical American tree, Samanea saman, of the legume family, having spreading branches and dense heads of small, pink flowers.
- monopodes — Plural form of monopode.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- name-drop — mention famous person to impress
- nonplaced — Not assigned a place.
- nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonposted — Not having been posted (in various senses).
- nonpulsed — Not pulsed.