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9-letter words containing p, i, e, r, o

  • slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
  • soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
  • sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  • sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
  • spillover — the act of spilling over.
  • sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
  • sporicide — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
  • sporidesm — a multicellular group of spores
  • 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
  • subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
  • supercoil — superhelix.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
  • time-poor — lacking spare time or leisure time
  • top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
  • top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
  • trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
  • 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
  • tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
  • turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
  • unprovide — to fail to supply necessary requirements or provisions; to divest
  • vaporizer — a person or thing that vaporizes.
  • vertiport — a type of airport for aircrafts which land and take off vertically
  • videoporn — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
  • willpower — control of one's impulses and actions; self-control.
  • windpower — Power harnessed or generated from the wind.
  • wire rope — a rope made of or containing strands of wire twisted together.
  • wirephoto — a device for transmitting photographs over distances by wire. a photograph so transmitted.
  • workpiece — a piece of work being machined.
  • worshiped — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • worshiper — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • zoetropic — of or relating to a zoetrope
  • zooperist — a person who practises zoopery
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