9-letter words containing s, p, o, t
- 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.
- deponents — Plural form of deponent.
- deportees — to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
- deposited — to place for safekeeping or in trust, especially in a bank account: He deposited his paycheck every Friday.
- depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
- depositum — (finance, obsolete) A deposit.
- despotate — An area ruled by a despot (\u03b4\u03b5\u03c3\u03c0\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2) in the late Byzantine Balkans (12th to 15th centuries).
- despotism — Despotism is cruel and unfair government by a ruler or rulers who have a lot of power.
- despotize — To behave like a despot.
- dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
- disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
- disposest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of dispose.
- disposeth — Archaic third-person singular form of dispose.
- disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
- doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
- doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
- dope test — test for drugs in body
- dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
- dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- downswept — curved downwards
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopias — Plural form of dystopia.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- endpoints — Plural form of endpoint.
- entoptics — the study of entoptic visions
- entrepots — Plural form of entrepot.
- entropies — Plural form of entropy.
- epicotyls — Plural form of epicotyl.
- epidosite — a rock formed of quartz and epidote
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epistoler — One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
- epistolet — a short letter
- epistolic — Relating to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
- epitomist — One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- escopette — a carbine