9-letter words containing s, t, p, e, r
- 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.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
- dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
- 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.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- emplaster — a plaster
- entrepots — Plural form of entrepot.
- entropies — Plural form of entropy.
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epistoler — One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
- eruptions — Plural form of eruption.
- esotropia — A form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.
- esotropic — (of an eye) turning inwards
- esperanto — Esperanto is an invented language which consists of parts of several European languages, and which was designed to help people from different countries communicate with each other.
- estrapade — The rearing, plunging, and kicking actions of a horse trying to get rid of its rider.
- 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)
- eutropous — (of an insect or plant) adapted for pollination
- expertise — Expert skill or knowledge in a particular field.
- expertism — the quality of being an expert
- exporters — Plural form of exporter.
- expositor — A person or thing that explains complicated ideas or theories.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- extrapose — to move a word or words to the end of, or outside, a clause or sentence without altering its sense
- firetraps — Plural form of firetrap.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- footropes — Plural form of footrope.
- foreparts — Plural form of forepart.
- forespent — forspent.
- frumpiest — frumpish.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- grumpiest — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.
- hot press — a hot press is an airing cupboard for clothes
- hot-press — a machine applying heat in conjunction with mechanical pressure, as for producing a smooth surface on paper or for expressing oil.
- importers — Plural form of importer.
- imposters — Plural form of imposter.
- imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites