9-letter words containing p, o, t, s
- synth-pop — a type of pop music in which synthesizers are used to create the dominant sound
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- the mopes — low spirits
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- toad spit — cuckoo spit (sense 1)
- tok pisin — Neo-Melanesian.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- tool post — an upright for holding a lathe tool.
- top boots — high boots, often with decorative or contrasting upper sections
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top story — headline news item
- top-class — Top-class means among the finest of its kind.
- top-dress — to manure (land) on the surface.
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- topstitch — to sew a line of stitches on the face side of (a garment or the like) alongside a seam.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- 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 shot — half volley.
- tree post — king post (def 1).
- troopship — a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.
- 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.
- tuck shop — a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
- tuck-shop — a shop where pastry, candy, or the like is sold.
- tutorship — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- two-phase — diphase.
- two-speed — (of a transmission system) having two settings
- typhlosis — blindness.
- ultraposh — extremely posh
- unspotted — having no spots or stains; without spots; spotless: an unspotted breed of dog; unspotted trousers.
- unstopped — to remove the stopper from: to unstop a bottle.
- unstopper — to unstop.
- upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- uppermost — highest in place, order, rank, power, etc.: the uppermost peaks of the mountain; the uppermost class of society.