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9-letter words containing r, e, i, n, t, p

  • replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
  • reporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
  • reportion — a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it: I read a portion of the manuscript.
  • reptation — a creeping motion; the act of crawling
  • reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
  • rip entry — an entry into the water with little splashing.
  • ripienist — an orchestral member who is there to swell the sound rather than play solo
  • septarian — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
  • serpentis — genitive of Serpens.
  • soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
  • sparteine — a bitter, poisonous, liquid alkaloid obtained from certain species of broom, especially Cytisus scoparius, used in medicine to stimulate the heart and also the uterine muscles in childbirth.
  • spearmint — an aromatic herb, Mentha spicata, having lance-shaped leaves used for flavoring.
  • sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
  • spinneret — an organ or part by means of which a spider, insect larva, or the like spins a silky thread for its web or cocoon.
  • splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
  • springlet — a small spring of water.
  • sprintnet — A public packet-switched network using the ITU-T X.25 protocols, that provides dial-up access to services like Delphi, Portal, GEnie and Compuserve.
  • strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
  • superthin — extremely thin
  • tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  • taper pin — a short round metal rod having a small amount of taper so that when driven into a hole it tightens on the taper so that it can act as a stop or wedge
  • teleprint — to print out (a message) using a teleprinter
  • tempering — a particular state of mind or feelings.
  • terpenoid — a class of chemical compounds including all terpenes
  • terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
  • transpire — to occur; happen; take place.
  • trephiner — a surgeon who works with a trephine
  • trepidant — trepid.
  • trimphone — a phone designed in the 1960s
  • trip line — (in lumbering) a line for freeing a dog hook from a log at a distance.
  • tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
  • tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
  • tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
  • unpredict — to retract or annul (a previous prediction)
  • unprinted — to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
  • unstriped — not striped; nonstriated, as muscular tissue.
  • wrest pin — peg (def 5).
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