9-letter words containing p, e, t, r, o
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- st-tropez — commune and seaside resort in SE France, on the Mediterranean: pop. 5,000
- sternport — an opening or window in the stern of ship
- sternpost — an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.
- 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.
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- store pig — a pig that has not yet been weaned and weighs less than 40 kg
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- stroppers — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- superport — a deepwater port, often one built offshore, capable of accommodating very large ships, especially supertankers of 100,000 tons or more.
- supersoft — exceptionally soft
- supporter — a person or thing that supports.
- 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.
- taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- temporize — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- tephroite — a mineral, silicate of manganese, Mn 2 SiO 4 , occurring in orthorhombic crystals.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- terpenoid — a class of chemical compounds including all terpenes
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- time-poor — lacking spare time or leisure time
- top-dress — to manure (land) on the surface.
- 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-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- 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
- 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.
- turcopole — during the Crusades, a type of lightly armed and low-ranking soldier belonging to the Order of St John of Jerusalem, used mainly as mounted archers and scouts
- turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.