9-letter words containing p, o, r, t
- 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
- tiptronic — a type of gearbox that has both automatic and manual options
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- top floor — highest storey of a building
- top fruit — fruit that grows on trees
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- top round — a cut of beef taken from inside the round, which is below the rump and above the upper leg.
- top story — headline news item
- 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.
- topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces
- 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
- torpidity — inactive or sluggish.
- transport — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- 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.
- trap door — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- trap rock — trap2
- trap shot — half volley.
- 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.
- triploidy — the condition of being triploid
- tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
- trollopee — a loose dress or gown worn in the 18th century by women
- troopship — a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.
- troparion — (in the Greek Orthodox Church) a verse or short hymn
- tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- tropology — the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
- truckstop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
- turboprop — turbo-propeller engine.
- turbopump — a turbine-driven pump, as one used to feed propellant to a rocket engine.
- 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
- turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
- tutorship — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- two-party — (of a political system) dominated by two major political parties