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9-letter words containing p, o, t

  • autopista — a Spanish motorway
  • autoplast — autograft.
  • autopoint — a point-to-point race in motor cars
  • autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
  • autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
  • autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
  • autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
  • autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
  • autoscopy — the experience of hallucination in which one sees oneself from outside one's own body
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
  • auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
  • azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
  • azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
  • baby spot — a small spotlight, usually 250–400 watts, used to highlight a specific section of a stage setting or acting area.
  • backstops — Plural form of backstop.
  • ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
  • barotropy — a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
  • belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
  • betatopic — (of atoms) differing in proton number by one, theoretically as a result of emission of a beta particle
  • bicompact — compact1 (def 7).
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
  • bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
  • blimp out — to become greatly overweight
  • blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
  • bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
  • boat trip — a trip in a boat
  • bode plot — A Bode plot is the graph of amplitude (in decibels) and phase against frequency (in logarithmic format).
  • body part — a part of a human body
  • body type — type used in the main text of printed matter, generally less than 14 points.
  • bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
  • book post — a special system and rate for posting books
  • bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
  • boot camp — In the United States, a boot camp is a camp where people who have just joined the army, navy, or marines are trained.
  • boot-tops — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
  • bootstrap — If you bootstrap an organization or an activity, you set it up or achieve it alone, using very few resources.
  • bop stack — A BOP stack is one of two or more units which control well pressure, and contain the wellhead and blowout preventers.
  • bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
  • bottom-up — from the lowest level of a hierarchy or process to the top
  • box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
  • box stoop — a high stoop reached by a flight or flights of steps alongside the building front.
  • bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
  • bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
  • bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
  • bump into — If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly.
  • bumptious — If you say that someone is bumptious, you are criticizing them because they are very pleased with themselves and their opinions.
  • button up — to fasten (a garment) with a button or buttons
  • byproduct — A byproduct is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
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