9-letter words containing p, o, t, s
- 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.
- stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
- stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
- stop bath — an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stop down — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop knob — stop (def 31d).
- stop over — stay overnight on a journey
- stop sign — a traffic sign requiring a motorist to stop before continuing.
- stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
- stop-loss — designed or planned to prevent continued loss, as a customer's order to a broker to sell a stock if its price declines to a specific amount.
- stop-work — a temporary cessation of work as a form of protest
- stoplight — traffic light.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- 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.
- stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- 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.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subpotent — not at full strength
- sumptuous — entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
- 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.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympatico — simpatico
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- symptotic — relating to symptosis
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.