9-letter words containing p, o, r, t
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportless — without any sport
- sportsdom — the world of professional and amateur competitive sports.
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sportster — a sports car.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- st-tropez — commune and seaside resort in SE France, on the Mediterranean: pop. 5,000
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- sternport — an opening or window in the stern of ship
- sternpost — an upright member rising from the after end of a keel; a rudderpost or propeller post.
- stockport — borough of Greater Manchester, in NW England.
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- stop-work — a temporary cessation of work as a form of protest
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- 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
- storm pit — a storm cellar.
- strap-oil — a beating
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- strip off — remove clothes
- strip out — to remove the working parts of (a machine)
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- stroppers — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
- stuporous — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- superport — a deepwater port, often one built offshore, capable of accommodating very large ships, especially supertankers of 100,000 tons or more.
- supersoft — exceptionally soft
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- 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.
- taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- targa top — a removable hard roof on a motor car
- 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