9-letter words containing p, o, e, t, i
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
- opinative — Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- opiniated — Obsolete form of opinionated.
- oppilated — Simple past tense and past participle of oppilate.
- opposites — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optatives — Plural form of optative.
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimized — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimizer — A person in a large business whose task is to maximize profits and make the business more efficient.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps
- overprint — Printing. to print additional material or another color on a form or sheet previously printed.
- p/e ratio — price-to-earnings ratio
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- pampootie — a rawhide slipper worn by men in the Aran Islands
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pantomime — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- papillote — a decorative curled paper placed over the end of the bone of a cutlet or chop.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronize — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- pectinose — arabinose.
- pectolite — a mineral, hydrous calcium sodium silicate, usually occurring in radiating groups of crystals in rock cavities.
- pedorthic — (of footwear) designed to alleviate problems with feet, lower limbs, posture, etc
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- peltation — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- penistone — a coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes
- penticton — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- pentolite — a high explosive consisting of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and TNT.
- pentoside — a glycoside that, upon hydrolysis, yields a pentose
- pentoxide — an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen, as phosphorus pentoxide, P 2 O 5 .
- peptonize — to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
- perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- periaktos — an ancient device used for changing theatre scenery, usually consisting of a revolving triangular prism with different scenes painted on each face; the device was heavily used in the Renaissance
- peridotic — of, relating to, or containing peridot
- periodate — a salt of a periodic acid, as sodium periodate, Na 2 H 3 IO 6 .
- periproct — (in certain echinoids) that part of the body surface bordering the anus.
- peristome — Botany. the one or two circles of small, pointed, toothlike appendages around the orifice of a capsule or urn of mosses, appearing when the lid is removed.
- peronista — Peronist.