9-letter words containing ope
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- scope out — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- scopeloid — a member of a family of deep-sea fish with luminous spots
- ski slope — snow-covered hill at ski resort
- skiascope — retinoscope.
- skip rope — A skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it around and around and jumping over it.
- slopewise — in a sloping manner
- somascope — a medical instrument used to inspect internal organs for disease
- st-tropez — commune and seaside resort in SE France, on the Mediterranean: pop. 5,000
- stenopeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- telescope — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
- the mopes — low spirits
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- topectomy — excision of part of the cerebral cortex for the relief of unmanageable pain or especially as a treatment for certain mental disorders.
- tritanope — a person who cannot distinguish the colour blue
- trollopee — a loose dress or gown worn in the 18th century by women
- tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- unhopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- wallopers — Plural form of walloper.
- wide open — opened to the full extent: a wide-open window.
- wide-open — opened to the full extent: a wide-open window.
- wire rope — a rope made of or containing strands of wire twisted together.
- zooperist — a person who practises zoopery
- zymoscope — A zymometer.