9-letter words containing p, o, e, t, i
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- sepiolite — meerschaum (def 1).
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- septiform — sevenfold
- septimole — a group of seven musical notes to be played in the same space of time as either four or six
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- spilosite — a form of slate
- spot fine — penalty paid immediately
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- step into — enter
- stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
- 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
- stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
- 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.
- tex point — (unit, text) The variant of the point used by TeX, equal to 0.3514598035 mm, or 1/72.27 inch.
- thiophene — a water-insoluble, colorless liquid, C 4 H 4 S, resembling benzene, occurring in crude coal-tar benzene: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- tide pool — tidal pool.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- time copy — written material set in type and held for future use. Compare filler (def 5).
- time-poor — lacking spare time or leisure time
- tippy-toe — tiptoe
- tiptoeing — the tip or end of a toe.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- toe-piece — the forward part of the device fixed to a ski to grip a ski boot, for either water skiing or snow skiing
- 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.
- two-piece — having or consisting of two parts or pieces, especially two matching pieces of a clothing ensemble: a two-piece bathing suit.