9-letter words containing p, t, e
- exporting — Present participle of export.
- expositor — A person or thing that explains complicated ideas or theories.
- exprobate — (obsolete) To exprobrate.
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- extempore — Spoken or done without preparation.
- extirpate — Root out and destroy completely.
- extispicy — (uncountable) Haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
- extrapate — Misspelling of extirpate.
- extrapose — to move a word or words to the end of, or outside, a clause or sentence without altering its sense
- extripate — Misspelling of extirpate.
- extropian — Of, or relating to extropy.
- eye patch — covering for one eye
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceplate — (on a lathe) a perforated plate, mounted on the live spindle, to which the work is attached.
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- fastpaced — Alternative spelling of fast-paced.
- fat depot — adipose tissue.
- fatten up — To fatten up an animal or person means to make them fatter, by forcing or encouraging them to eat more food.
- feed type — The feed type is the type of hydrocarbon which a refinery uses for a particular product.
- feldspath — Alternative form of feldspar.
- fencepost — A post which helps hold up a fence.
- ferrotype — to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin)
- fetoscope — a tubular fiberoptic instrument used for diagnostic examination of the fetus and interior of the uterus.
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- file type — (file format) The kind of data stored in a file. Most modern operating systems use the filename extension to determine the file type though others store this information elsewhere in the file system. The file type is used to choose an appropriate icon to represent the file in a GUI and the correct application with which to view, edit, run, or print the file. Different operating systems support different sets of file types though most agree on a large common set and allow arbitrary new types to be defined. See also MIME.
- fingertip — the tip or end of a finger.
- firetraps — Plural form of firetrap.
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- five-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing five pips; a domino one half of which bears five pips.
- fleshpots — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- flowerpot — a container in which to grow and display plants.
- flue stop — a rank of flue pipes in an organ.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- footplate — Carpentry. a plate running beneath and supporting a row of studs; mudsill.
- footropes — Plural form of footrope.
- footsteps — Plural form of footstep.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- foreparts — Plural form of forepart.
- forepoint — to predetermine or indicate in advance
- forespent — forspent.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- fowl pest — an acute and usually fatal viral disease of domestic fowl, characterized by refusal to eat, high temperature, and discoloration of the comb and wattles
- free port — a port or special section of a port where goods may be unloaded, stored, and shipped without payment of customs duties.
- frontpage — Alternative spelling of front page.
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- gantelope — gauntlet2 .
- gateposts — Plural form of gatepost.
- gather up — collect
- gaziantep — a city in S Turkey in Asia.