9-letter words containing t, o, p, s, e
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
- store pig — a pig that has not yet been weaned and weighs less than 40 kg
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- stroppers — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
- subpotent — not at full strength
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supermoto — a form of motorcycle racing in which powerful motorbikes are raced over a circuit that is part tarmac and part dirt
- superport — a deepwater port, often one built offshore, capable of accommodating very large ships, especially supertankers of 100,000 tons or more.
- supersoft — exceptionally soft
- supporter — a person or thing that supports.
- susceptor — a piece of metallic film on a package of microwaveable food that helps cook and brown the food by producing and concentrating energy on the food's outer surface.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- the mopes — low spirits
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- tidepools — tidal pool.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- to pieces — into shreds or small bits
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top-dress — to manure (land) on the surface.
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- top-sider — a casual shoe, often made of canvas, having a nonskid rubber sole
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- tree post — king post (def 1).
- two-phase — diphase.
- two-speed — (of a transmission system) having two settings
- unspotted — having no spots or stains; without spots; spotless: an unspotted breed of dog; unspotted trousers.
- unstopped — to remove the stopper from: to unstop a bottle.
- unstopper — to unstop.
- upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- uppermost — highest in place, order, rank, power, etc.: the uppermost peaks of the mountain; the uppermost class of society.
- vide post — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see after
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- weak spot — some aspect of a character or situation that is susceptible to criticism
- woodspite — the green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis