9-letter words containing t, r, a, p
- copytaker — (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone
- coroplast — A manufacturer of terracotta figurines (in Ancient Greece).
- corporate — Corporate means relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crappiest — Superlative form of crappy.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crapulent — given to or resulting from intemperance
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- crepitant — to make a crackling sound; crackle.
- crepitate — to make a rattling or crackling sound; rattle or crackle
- crispated — Crispate.
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- cryptadia — a collection of things to be kept hidden
- cryptical — mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: a cryptic message.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- culpatory — expressing blame
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- dandiprat — a small English coin minted in the 16th century
- date rape — Date rape is when a man rapes a woman whom he has met socially.
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
- deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
- demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
- departeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'depart'.
- departing — to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.
- departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
- depasture — to graze or denude by grazing (a pasture, esp a meadow specially grown for the purpose)
- depravity — Depravity is very dishonest or immoral behaviour.
- deprecate — If you deprecate something, you criticize it.
- depredate — to plunder or destroy; pillage
- depurated — Simple past tense and past participle of depurate.
- desparate — Misspelling of desperate.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- dioptrate — (of a compound eye) divided by a transverse line
- dipterans — Plural form of dipteran.
- dis pater — Dis.
- disparate — distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
- disparity — lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
- disparted — Simple past tense and past participle of dispart.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
- draintrap — A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
- 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 tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- emplaster — a plaster