9-letter words containing p, s, r
- cryoscope — any instrument used to determine the freezing point of a substance
- cryoscopy — the determination of freezing points, esp for the determination of molecular weights by measuring the lowering of the freezing point of a solvent when a known quantity of solute is added
- cryosleep — (science fiction) A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep.
- cs-prolog — Distributed logic language. "CS-Prolog on Multi-Transputer Systems", I. Futo et al, Microprocessors & Microsystems, March 1989.
- cupboards — Plural form of cupboard.
- cupressus — any tree of the genus Cupressus
- curseperl — A curses library for Perl by the author of Perl, Larry Wall <[email protected]>. It comes with Perl.
- cuspidors — Plural form of cuspidor.
- cutpurses — Plural form of cutpurse.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cypresses — Plural form of cypress.
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- dayspring — the dawn
- deciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decipher.
- deiparous — giving birth to a god
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depleters — Plural form of depleter.
- deportees — to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
- depresses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depress.
- depressor — a person or thing that depresses
- derepress — to cause (a gene) to cease to be repressed, by deactivating its depressor
- despaired — loss of hope; hopelessness.
- despairer — a person who despairs
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- despenser — Hugh le, Earl of Winchester. 1262–1326, English statesman, a favourite of Edward II. Together with his son Hugh, the Younger (?1290–1326), he was executed by the king's enemies
- desperado — A desperado is someone who does illegal, violent things without worrying about the danger.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.
- diapirism — the existence of diapirs
- diasporas — Plural form of diaspora.
- diaspores — Plural form of diaspore.
- diasporic — of or relating to a (or the) Diaspora
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dipterist — an expert on flies belonging to the order Diptera
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- discerped — Simple past tense and past participle of discerp.
- disparage — to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- dispauper — to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.
- dispeller — to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog.
- dispenser — a person or thing that dispenses.
- dispersal — The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.