9-letter words containing r, e, p, a
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
- aspergill — An aspergillum.
- aspersing — Present participle of asperse.
- aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
- aspersive — to attack with false, malicious, and damaging charges or insinuations; slander.
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attempter — One who attempts.
- au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
- auraptene — A bioactive monoterpene coumarin ether that helps to prevent degenerative diseases, first isolated from the genus Citrus.
- auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
- austemper — to harden (steel) by heating and quenching to render it austenitic.
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
- azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
- azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
- backer-up — a supporter; backer; second.
- backspeir — to cross-examine, interrogate
- bad paper — a less-than-honorable discharge from military service.
- bad-press — to act upon with steadily applied weight or force.
- bagpipers — Plural form of bagpiper.
- bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barkeeper — A barkeeper is someone who serves drinks behind a bar.
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
- barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
- base pair — a pair of bases consisting of the pyrimidine base of one nucleotide joined by a hydrogen bond to the complementary purine base of another nucleotide: such pairs form the links between the two strands of DNA and of double-stranded RNA
- bear trap — snare to catch bears
- bedspread — A bedspread is a decorative cover which is put over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bespatter — to splash all over, as with dirty water
- bioparent — a biological parent
- biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
- bipartite — consisting of or having two parts
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- bog paper — toilet paper
- bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
- bookpaper — the paper used in printing books, especially when of superior quality.
- brake pad — the flat metal casting, together with the bound friction material, in a disc brake
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- broomrape — any orobanchaceous plant of the genus Orobanche: brownish small-flowered leafless parasites on the roots of other plants, esp on legumes
- bypassers — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.