9-letter words containing p, o, r, t
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- imperator — an absolute or supreme ruler.
- important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- importing — Present participle of import.
- importune — to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- impostors — Plural form of impostor.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- improbity — lack of honesty or moral scruples.
- impromptu — made or done without previous preparation: an impromptu address to the unexpected crowds.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- inotropic — influencing the contractility of muscular tissue.
- 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.
- ionotropy — the reversible interconversion of a pair of organic isomers as a result of the migration of an ionic part of the molecule
- irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- isotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- 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.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- karyotype — the chromosomes of a cell, usually displayed as a systematized arrangement of chromosome pairs in descending order of size.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- kropotkin — Prince Pëter Alekseevich [pyawtr uh-lyi-ksyey-yi-vyich] /ˈpyɔtr ʌ lyɪˈksyeɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1921, Russian geographer, author, and anarchist.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- 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
- lipotropy — the process of breaking down excess fat in the human body
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
- 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.
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- monoprint — A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.