9-letter words containing t, r, o, p, a
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sarcoptic — related to or caused by itch-mites that cause mange in animals
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- spiration — the act of breathing
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sport car — a small, high-powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sportsman — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot card — spot (def 10b).
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- strap-oil — a beating
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- supinator — a muscle used in supination.
- taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- targa top — a removable hard roof on a motor car
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- top brass — brass (def 5).
- top quark — a type of quark with a mass of c. 176 to 199 GeV/c2, a positive charge 2⁄3 that of an electron, zero charm, and zero strangeness
- top-rated — A top-rated show or service is the most successful or highly regarded of its kind.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces
- transport — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- 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.
- trap door — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- trap rock — trap2
- trap shot — half volley.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- treponema — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
- troparion — (in the Greek Orthodox Church) a verse or short hymn
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- two-party — (of a political system) dominated by two major political parties
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made