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9-letter words containing t, r, o, p

  • crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • 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.
  • cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
  • crock pot — slow cooker
  • crock-pot — an electric cooker consisting of an earthenware pot inside a container with a heating element that maintains a steady low temperature, used as for simmering stews for several hours
  • crockpots — Plural form of crockpot.
  • crop-dust — to subject (a field) to crop-dusting.
  • crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
  • crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
  • crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
  • cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
  • cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
  • cryptonym — a code name or secret name
  • culpatory — expressing blame
  • cupertino — a town in W California.
  • curly top — a disease of plants, especially beets, characterized by puckered or cupped leaves and stunting or distortion, caused by a virus, Ruga verrucosans.
  • cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
  • davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
  • deceptory — inclined to deceive
  • demoparty — (demoscene) A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
  • depletory — Serving to deplete.
  • deportees — to expel (an alien) from a country; banish.
  • deporting — Present participle of deport.
  • depositor — A bank's depositors are the people who have accounts with that bank.
  • devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
  • 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
  • dioptrics — the branch of geometrical optics dealing with the formation of images by lenses.
  • dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
  • dirt poor — lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
  • dirt-poor — lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
  • diruption — (archaic) disruption.
  • disported — to divert or amuse (oneself).
  • disprofit — to (cause to) fail to profit
  • disruptor — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
  • 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.
  • doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
  • doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
  • doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
  • dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
  • dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
  • drop girt — a girt running beneath the ends of joists and at right angles to them.
  • 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 shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
  • drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
  • drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
  • dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
  • droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
  • dropstone — an old name for stalactites
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