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

  • superhero — a hero, especially in children's comic books and television cartoons, possessing extraordinary, often magical powers.
  • superjock — an extremely athletic person
  • superlong — extremely long
  • supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
  • supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
  • superport — a deepwater port, often one built offshore, capable of accommodating very large ships, especially supertankers of 100,000 tons or more.
  • superpose — to place above or upon something else, or one upon another.
  • superroad — an extremely large road
  • supershow — an exceptional show
  • 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.
  • suspensor — a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
  • 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.
  • type-word — type (def 8).
  • uncoupler — an agent responsible for the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation
  • uncropped — the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.
  • underplot — a plot subordinate to another plot, as in a novel.
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