9-letter words containing t, r, o, p, y
- proturkey — a republic in W Asia and SE Europe. 296,184 sq. mi. (767,120 sq. km): 286,928 sq. mi. (743,145 sq. km) in Asia; 9257 sq. mi. (23,975 sq. km) in Europe. Capital: Ankara.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- proximity — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- prozymite — a person using leavened bread for the Eucharist
- pterygoid — wing-shaped
- pterygote — belonging or pertaining to the arthropod subclass Pterygota, comprising the winged insects.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- purgatory — (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
- puttyroot — an American orchid, Aplectrum hyemale, having a slender naked rootstock that produces a leafless stalk with a loose cluster of yellowish-brown flowers.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyoureter — distention of a ureter with pus.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyrolater — a worshipper of fire
- pyrolatry — the worship of fire
- pyrometer — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- pyrometry — an apparatus for measuring high temperatures that uses the radiation emitted by a hot body as a basis for measurement.
- pyrotoxin — pyrogen.
- raspatory — a surgical instrument for abrading; surgeon's rasp
- repertory — a type of theatrical presentation in which a company presents several works regularly or in alternate sequence in one season.
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- temporary — an office worker hired, usually through an agency on a per diem basis, for a short period of time.
- tetrapody — a measure consisting of four feet.
- top story — headline news item
- topometry — the measurement of the surface features of a region
- torpidity — inactive or sluggish.
- triploidy — the condition of being triploid
- tropology — the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
- two-party — (of a political system) dominated by two major political parties
- type-word — type (def 8).
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
- tyropitta — a Greek cheese pie
- upcountry — of, relating to, residing in, or situated in the interior of a region or country; inland.
- word-type — word class; part of speech
- xerophyte — a plant adapted for growth under dry conditions.
- zootrophy — the nourishment of animals