9-letter words containing t, i, p, a
- merit pay — an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- misrepeat — (transitive) To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
- mixer tap — a tap in which hot and cold water supplies have a joint outlet but are controlled separately
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- naupathia — (medicine) seasickness.
- neap tide — either of the two tides that occur at the first or last quarter of the moon when the tide-generating forces of the sun and moon oppose each other and produce the smallest rise and fall in tidal level
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- neptunian — pertaining to Neptune or the sea.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- nonpapist — not papist, not Roman Catholic
- nonparity — the condition of having no parity; the state of not being equal
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- notopodia — Plural form of notopodium.
- occipital — of, relating to, or situated near the occiput or the occipital bone.
- octaploid — an organism that consists of eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- octapodic — (in poetic metre) having or consisting of eight feet
- oil paint — oil color.
- oil patch — an area in which oil is produced.
- oil-plant — any of several plants, as the castor-oil plant or sesame, the seeds of which yield an oil.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- opination — The state or process of opining. For example:.
- opinative — Conjectural; expressing an opinion rather than a fact.
- opiniated — Obsolete form of opinionated.
- oppilated — Simple past tense and past participle of oppilate.
- optatives — Plural form of optative.
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- optically — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- opticians — Plural form of optician.
- optimally — optimum (def 3).
- outpacing — Present participle of outpace.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- overpaint — to cover over with paint
- oviparity — producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
- oviraptor — a bipedal dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, having a toothless jaw and long forelimbs with clawed fingers