9-letter words containing p, r, e, s, o
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- rotoscope — a projection device that allows images from live-action films to be traced to create an animated sequence
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- screw top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- sea power — naval strength.
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semigroup — an algebraic system closed under an associative binary operation.
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- septiform — sevenfold
- serogroup — a group of bacteria with a common antigen
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- singapore — an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula.
- skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
- sleepover — an instance of sleeping over, as at another person's house.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slop over — to overflow or spill, as a liquid when its container is tilted
- slop-over — a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- snow pear — a small tree, Pyrus nivalis, of eastern Europe and Asia Minor, having showy flowers and nearly globe-shaped fruit.
- snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- soapberry — the fruit of any of certain tropical or subtropical trees of the genus Sapindus, especially S. saponaria, used as a substitute for soap.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spadework — preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.
- sparkover — spark1 (def 2).
- speak for — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sponsored — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- sporicide — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
- sporidesm — a multicellular group of spores
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- sporogeny — the process of spore formation in plants and animals
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities