9-letter words containing s, p, a, t
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crispated — Crispate.
- cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cytoplasm — the protoplasm of a cell contained within the cell membrane but excluding the nucleus: contains organelles, vesicles, and other inclusions
- cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
- datepalms — Plural form of datepalm.
- dead spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- dead-spot — Anatomy. a small area on the retina that is insensitive to light due to the interruption, where the optic nerve joins the retina, of the normal pattern of light-sensitive rods and cones.
- debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
- depascent — Consuming.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- despotate — An area ruled by a despot (\u03b4\u03b5\u03c3\u03c0\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).
- despumate — to clarify or purify (a liquid) by skimming a scum from its surface
- die-stamp — to produce words or decoration on (a surface) by using a steel die so that the printed images stand in relief
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
- dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopias — Plural form of dystopia.
- east cape — the easternmost point of New Guinea, on Milne Bay
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- empaestic — embossed
- empathies — Plural form of empathy.
- empathise — (British) alternative spelling of empathize.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- emplaster — a plaster
- emplastic — adhesive
- ephialtes — (obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare.
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epistases — Plural form of epistasis.
- epistasis — The interaction of genes that are not alleles, in particular the suppression of the effect of one such gene by another.
- epistatic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to epistasis, the interaction between genes.
- epistaxes — Plural form of epistaxis.
- epistaxis — nosebleed
- escapists — Plural form of escapist.
- esotropia — A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.