9-letter words containing p, o, e, r
- repropose — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- reproving — If you give someone a reproving look or speak in a reproving voice, you show or say that you think they have behaved in a wrong or foolish way.
- reptation — a creeping motion; the act of crawling
- reptiloid — having the form or shape of a reptile
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- repurpose — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- responded — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- responder — a person or thing that responds.
- responser — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responses — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- responsor — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- rest stop — a stop made, as during a motor trip, to allow passengers to stretch their legs, use rest rooms, get refreshments, etc.
- retropack — a system of retrorockets on a spacecraft
- rheophile — an organism that likes to live in flowing water
- rheotrope — a device that reverses an electric current
- ridgepole — the horizontal timber or member at the top of a roof, to which the upper ends of the rafters are fastened.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- role play — playacting, simulation
- role-play — to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
- rolled-up — Rolled-up objects have been folded or wrapped into a cylindrical shape.
- romp home — to win a race easily
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rope yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- rotoscope — a projection device that allows images from live-action films to be traced to create an animated sequence
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- sea power — naval strength.
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- septiform — sevenfold
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
- sleepover — an instance of sleeping over, as at another person's house.
- 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.