9-letter words that end in ort
- a la mort — mortally ill.
- adderwort — the bistort, a herbaceous flowering plant, Polygonum bistorta, of the dock family
- alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
- birthwort — any of several climbing plants of the genus Aristolochia, esp A. clematitis of Europe, once believed to ease childbirth: family Aristolochiaceae
- bloodwort — a name given to a number of plants which have red leaves or roots, or which are popularly considered either to draw blood or to reduce bleeding
- bogo-sort — (algorithm, humour) /boh"goh-sort"/ (Or "stupid-sort") The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canonical example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb algorithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses bogo-sort." Also known as "monkey sort" after the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Compare brute force, Lasherism.
- bud sport — a shoot, inflorescence, etc, that differs from another such structure on a plant and is caused by a somatic mutation; the differences can be retained by vegetative propagation
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
- crosswort — a herbaceous perennial Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium cruciata, with pale yellow flowers and whorls of hairy leaves
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- davenport — a tall narrow desk with a slanted writing surface and drawers at the side
- devonport — a city in N Tasmania.
- elderwort — Danewort.
- europoort — a port in the Netherlands near Rotterdam: developed in the 1960s; handles chiefly oil
- feverwort — horse gentian.
- for short — having little length; not long.
- frankfort — a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km). Capital: Frankfort. Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
- free port — a port or special section of a port where goods may be unloaded, stored, and shipped without payment of customs duties.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- glasswort — any of several plants of the genus Salicornia, of the amaranth family, having succulent stems with rudimentary leaves, formerly used, when burned to ashes, as a source of soda for glassmaking.
- good sort — a person of a kindly and likable disposition
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hot-short — (of steel or wrought iron) brittle when heated, usually due to high sulfur content.
- hoverport — A terminal for hovercraft.
- kingsport — a city in NE Tennessee.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- liverwort — any mosslike plant of the class Hepaticae, growing chiefly on damp ground, rocks, or on tree trunks and helping the decay of logs and the disintegration of rocks.
- lousewort — any plant belonging to the genus Pedicularis, of the figwort family, as the wood betony, formerly supposed to cause lice in sheep feeding on it: one species, P. furbishiae (Furbish lousewort) of parts of Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, having finely toothed leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers, is endangered and was thought to be extinct until specimens were discovered in 1946 and again in 1976.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- micromort — a unit of risk equal to a one-in-a-million chance of dying
- misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
- miterwort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
- mitrewort — any of several plants belonging to the genus Mitella, of the saxifrage family, having a capsule that resembles a bishop's miter.
- moneywort — a creeping plant, Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, having roundish leaves and solitary yellow flowers.
- multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
- navelwort — a European plant, Umbilicus rupestris, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, round leaves and yellowish-green flowers.
- northport — a town in central Alabama.
- of a sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- overshort — having little length; not long.
- pearlwort — any caryophyllaceous plant of the genus Sagina, having small white flowers that are spherical in bud
- pennywort — any of several plants having round or roundish leaves, as the navelwort.
- quicksort — A sorting algorithm with O(n log n) average time complexity. One element, x of the list to be sorted is chosen and the other elements are split into those elements less than x and those greater than or equal to x. These two lists are then sorted recursively using the same algorithm until there is only one element in each list, at which point the sublists are recursively recombined in order yielding the sorted list. This can be written in Haskell:
- quillwort — any fernlike, aquatic marsh plant of the genus Isoëtes, characterized by clustered, quill-like leaves bearing sporangia in their bases.
- re-export — to export again, as imported goods.
- re-import — to import back into the country of exportation.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
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