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9-letter words containing p, t

  • leadplant — a North American shrub, Amorpha canescens, of the legume family, the leaves and twigs of which have a gray cast.
  • leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.
  • lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
  • leetspeak — a coded spelling system and language used in very informal communications on the Internet, featuring letters combined with numbers or special characters in place of letters that they may resemble, and including inventive misspellings, jargon, and slang.
  • leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
  • leprosity — the state of being leprous
  • leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
  • leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
  • leptotene — a stage of cell division during the prophase of meiosis, in which the chromosomes are not distinct but appear as a mass of entangled threads.
  • let up on — If you let up on someone or something, you stop being so harsh or strict with them.
  • li tai po — Li Po.
  • lick-spit — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
  • lift pump — a pump in which a liquid is lifted rather than forced up from below.
  • light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
  • lightship — a ship anchored in a specific location and displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships, as in avoiding dangerous areas. Abbreviation: LS.
  • limpidity — clear, transparent, or pellucid, as water, crystal, or air: We could see to the very bottom of the limpid pond.
  • linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
  • lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
  • lipolytic — Of or pertaining to lipolysis.
  • lipoplast — a small particle in plant cytoplasm, esp that of seeds, in which fat is stored
  • lipotropy — the process of breaking down excess fat in the human body
  • lippitude — the state of having bleary or sore eyes
  • lipsticks — Plural form of lipstick.
  • listen up — pay attention, listen
  • lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
  • live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
  • lock step — a way of marching in such close file that the corresponding legs of the marchers must keep step precisely
  • locuplete — amply stocked
  • logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
  • long stop — a fielder who stands behind the wicket keeper, and catches balls the wicket keeper misses
  • loop knot — a knot made by doubling over a line at its end and tying both thicknesses into a square knot in such a way as to leave a loop.
  • lophodont — having molar teeth with crowns in the form of transverse ridges.
  • lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
  • lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
  • lymphitis — (archaic) lymphadenopathy.
  • lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
  • m-payment — a point-of-sale payment made through a wireless device such as a mobile phone or PDA
  • macrotape — (storage)   /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
  • magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
  • mail path — source route
  • maladapts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of maladapt.
  • malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
  • mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
  • mantispid — any neuropterous, mantislike insect of the family Mantispidae, the larvae of which are parasites in the nests of spiders or wasps.
  • martemper — (transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.
  • mast hasp — mast clamp (def 2).
  • mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
  • matagalpa — a city in W central Nicaragua.
  • matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
  • mattaponi — a river in E Virginia, flowing SE to join the Pamunkey and form the York River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
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