9-letter words containing a, p, o, s, t, e
- prosateur — a person who writes prose, especially as a livelihood.
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- pterosaur — any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scapegoat — a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- scarpetto — a type of shoe traditionally worn by Alpine climbers
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- sellotape — clear sticking tape
- separator — a person or thing that separates.
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- sleepcoat — a lightweight, knee-length garment for sleep or lounging, styled like a pajama top and having a sash.
- soapstone — a massive variety of talc with a soapy or greasy feel, used for hearths, washtubs, tabletops, carved ornaments, etc.
- soleplate — a plate upon which studding is erected.
- soopstake — sweeping up all stakes
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spaceport — a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spadefoot — spadefoot toad.
- speak out — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
- spearwort — any of several buttercups having lance-shaped leaves and small flowers, as Ranunculus ambigens, of the eastern U.S., growing in mud.
- spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- speedboat — a motorboat designed for high speeds.
- spermato- — indicating sperm
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- spot rate — trading: immediate price
- spottable — a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- stenopaic — (of an optic device) having a narrow opening devised to improve eyesight by limiting obscurations
- stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
- stoppable — capable of being stopped.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- transpose — to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.
- two-phase — diphase.
- vitascope — one of the first motion-picture projectors, developed by Thomas Edison.
- weak spot — some aspect of a character or situation that is susceptible to criticism