9-letter words containing p, o, e, t, i
- impetuous — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impsonite — a black variety of asphaltite with a jagged fracture.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- inopinate — unexpected
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interpone — to interpose
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- ivorytype — an antiquated photoprinting technique in which two prints are made of the same image, and the weaker one, made transparent with varnish and colored on the back, is laid over the stronger one.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- money pit — sth continually costing money
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- n'importe — no matter
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- nilpotent — equal to zero when raised to a certain power.
- nine-spot — a playing card the face of which bears nine pips.
- nonpoetic — not poetic
- obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).
- off-piste — of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- on tiptoe — the tip or end of a toe.
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open bite — deformity: jaws do not close