9-letter words containing p, r, o, c, t
- corruptly — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- corruptor — guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- crock pot — slow cooker
- crock-pot — an electric cooker consisting of an earthenware pot inside a container with a heating element that maintains a steady low temperature, used as for simmering stews for several hours
- crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
- crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- cryptonym — a code name or secret name
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cupertino — a town in W California.
- curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- deceptory — inclined to deceive
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- ectoproct — bryozoan; formerly, one of two broad types of bryozoan.
- ectropion — A condition, typically a consequence of advanced age, in which the eyelid is turned outward away from the eyeball.
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- endoproct — entoproct
- entoproct — (zoology) Any member of the Entoprocta, a phylum of mostly sessile aquatic animals.
- esotropic — (of an eye) turning inwards
- eton crop — a short mannish hairstyle worn by women in the 1920s
- eurytopic — (of a species) able to tolerate a wide range of environments
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- excerptor — One who makes excerpts.
- exotropic — (of an eye) turning outwards
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- geotropic — of, relating to, or exhibiting geotropism.
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- 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.
- incorrupt — not corrupt; not debased or perverted; morally upright.
- 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.
- isotropic — Physics. of equal physical properties along all axes. Compare anisotropic (def 1).
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.