9-letter words containing t, s, p
- disspirit — dispirit.
- distemper — Art. a technique of decorative painting in which glue or gum is used as a binder or medium to achieve a mat surface and rapid drying. (formerly) the tempera technique.
- doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
- doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
- doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
- dope test — test for drugs in body
- dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
- dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- downswept — curved downwards
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- 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-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.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- drupelets — Plural form of drupelet.
- dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- dyspeptic — pertaining to, subject to, or suffering from dyspepsia.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopias — Plural form of dystopia.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- east cape — the easternmost point of New Guinea, on Milne Bay
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- empaestic — embossed
- empathies — Plural form of empathy.
- empathise — (British) alternative spelling of empathize.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- emplaster — a plaster
- emplastic — adhesive
- emptiness — The state of containing nothing.
- endpoints — Plural form of endpoint.
- entoptics — the study of entoptic visions
- entrepots — Plural form of entrepot.
- entropies — Plural form of entropy.
- ephialtes — (obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare.
- epicotyls — Plural form of epicotyl.
- epictetus — ?50–?120 ad, Greek Stoic philosopher, who stressed self-renunciation and the brotherhood of man
- epidosite — a rock formed of quartz and epidote
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epiphytes — Plural form of epiphyte.
- epistases — Plural form of epistasis.
- epistasis — The interaction of genes that are not alleles, in particular the suppression of the effect of one such gene by another.
- epistatic — (genetics) Of or pertaining to epistasis, the interaction between genes.
- epistaxes — Plural form of epistaxis.
- epistaxis — nosebleed