9-letter words containing s, p, u, t
- 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.
- disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
- disputers — Plural form of disputer.
- disputing — to engage in argument or debate.
- disrepute — bad repute; low regard; disfavor (usually preceded by in or into): Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
- disrupted — Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
- disrupter — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- 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.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- epictetus — ?50–?120 ad, Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- euphemist — One who uses euphemisms.
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- eutropous — (of an insect or plant) adapted for pollination
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- fist pump — a gesture of enthusiasm, victory, etc., in which one raises a fist and thrusts the forearm quickly and forcefully forward or downward.
- flue stop — a rank of flue pipes in an organ.
- four-spot — a playing card or the upward face of a die bearing four pips; a domino, one half of which bears four pips.
- fps units — an Imperial system of units based on the foot, pound, and second as the units of length, mass, and time. For scientific and most technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- full stop — period (defs 10, 11).
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- hospitium — a hospice.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- housetops — Plural form of housetop.
- hunt's-up — (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- impetuous — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- impetuses — Plural form of impetus.
- impiteous — (obsolete) pitiless; cruel.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- in spurts — If something happens in spurts, there are periods of activity followed by periods in which it does not happen.
- jump seat — a movable or folding seat, as in a carriage, taxicab, or limousine, used as an extra seat.
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- jump suit — a one-piece suit worn by parachutists for jumping.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- jumpsuits — Plural form of jumpsuit.