9-letter words containing r, e, m, o, t, p
- potometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of water that a plant loses through transpiration, consisting of a sealed vessel of water with a cutting inserted in such a way that moisture can escape only through absorption and transpiration.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- preformat — to format in advance
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- premotion — a previous motion
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- prometric — in favour of the metric system
- prominent — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
- promotive — tending to promote.
- prompture — prompting
- protamine — any of a group of arginine-rich, strongly basic proteins that are not coagulated by heat, occurring primarily in the sperm of fish.
- proteomic — relating to a proteome
- protoderm — a thin outer layer of the meristem in embryos and growing points of roots and stems, which gives rise to the epidermis.
- protonema — a primary, usually filamentous structure produced by the germination of the spore in mosses and certain related plants, and from which the leafy plant which bears the sexual organs arises as a lateral or terminal shoot.
- proximate — next; nearest; immediately before or after in order, place, occurrence, etc.
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- pyrometer — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- pyrometry — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- re-import — to import back into the country of exportation.
- recompact — to pack or join (something) closely together again
- recompute — to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate: to compute the period of Jupiter's revolution.
- route map — road plan showing where to go
- septiform — sevenfold
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sportsmen — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- temporize — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- time-poor — lacking spare time or leisure time
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- topometry — the measurement of the surface features of a region
- treponema — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- trimphone — a phone designed in the 1960s
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- uppermost — highest in place, order, rank, power, etc.: the uppermost peaks of the mountain; the uppermost class of society.