9-letter words containing ape
- rag paper — a high-quality paper made from cotton or linen pulp.
- roofscape — a view of the rooftops of a town, city, etc
- sagapenum — a resin formerly used as a drug
- sandpaper — strong paper coated with a layer of sand or other abrasive, used for smoothing or polishing.
- scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- scapeless — lacking a scape
- scrape by — If someone scrapes by, they earn just enough money to live on with difficulty.
- scrape in — to succeed in entering with difficulty or by a narrow margin
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- sea grape — a tropical American tree, Coccoloba uvifera, of the buckwheat family, bearing grapelike clusters of edible purple berries.
- sellotape — clear sticking tape
- shapeless — having no definite or regular shape or form: a shapeless mass of clay.
- shapewear — undergarments designed to mold or hold a body to a certain shape, as girdles.
- shipshape — in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- stapedial — the innermost, stirrup-shaped bone of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, involved in the conduction of sound vibrations to the inner ear. Also called stirrup. Compare incus (def 1), malleus.
- stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
- tape deck — a component of an audio system for playing tapes, using an external amplifier and speakers.
- tape echo — a means of delaying the repeat of a sound by adjusting the time lapse between the recording and playback heads of a tape recorder
- tape head — a device which converts electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and back again; used in tape recorders
- tape loop — loop1 (sense 6)
- taper off — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- taper pin — a short round metal rod having a small amount of taper so that when driven into a hole it tightens on the taper so that it can act as a stop or wedge
- taperness — the state or quality of being a taper or tapered
- taperwise — in the manner of a taper
- tar paper — waterproof roofing material
- the gapes — a disease of young poultry and birds, characterized by gasping and choking and caused by gapeworms
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- trapezial — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapezist — a trapeze artist
- trapezium — Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
- trapezius — a broad, flat muscle on each side of the upper and back part of the neck, shoulders, and back, the action of which raises, or rotates, or draws back the shoulders, and pulls the head backward or to one side.
- trapezoid — Geometry. a quadrilateral plane figure having two parallel and two nonparallel sides. British. trapezium (def 1b).
- unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
- unshapely — not shapely
- untapered — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- videotape — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- wallpaper — paper, usually with printed decorative patterns in color, for pasting on and covering the walls or ceilings of rooms, hallways, etc.
- wapentake — (formerly in N England and the Midlands) a subdivision of a shire or county corresponding to a hundred.
- wax paper — a whitish, translucent wrapping paper made moistureproof by a paraffin coating.
- xeriscape — environmental design of residential and park land using various methods for minimizing the need for water use.