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9-letter words containing p, r, o

  • ascocarps — Plural form of ascocarp.
  • ascospore — one of the spores (usually eight in number) that are produced in an ascus
  • aspersion — a disparaging or malicious remark; slanderous accusation (esp in the phrase cast aspersions (on))
  • aspirator — a device employing suction, such as a jet pump or one for removing fluids from a body cavity
  • atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
  • atom trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • au poivre — coated with crushed black peppercorns, sautéed, and usually flamed with brandy and served with a sauce
  • auriscope — a medical instrument for examining the external ear
  • auriscopy — (medicine) Examination of the ear using an auriscope.
  • autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
  • autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
  • autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
  • autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
  • auxospore — a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
  • auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
  • avoparcin — an antibiotic, now banned in the EU, formerly used to treat farm animals
  • azeotrope — a mixture of liquids that boils at a constant temperature, at a given pressure, without change of composition
  • azeotropy — the existence of azeotropes
  • azo group — the bivalent group −N=N− united to two aromatic groups, as in azobenzene.
  • babyproof — made safe for babies to come into contact with
  • backdrops — Plural form of backdrop.
  • bar-spoon — a long-handled spoon, usually having the capacity of a teaspoon, used for mixing or measuring ingredients for alcoholic drinks.
  • bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
  • barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
  • barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
  • barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
  • baroscope — any instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, esp a manometer with one side open to the atmosphere
  • barotropy — a state of fluid stratification in which surfaces of constant pressure and others of constant density do not intersect but are parallel.
  • barperson — a person who serves in a pub: used esp in advertisements
  • beer pong — a drinking game in which players attempt to throw Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer, which must then be drunk by their opponents
  • bell rope — a rope attached to a bell
  • below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
  • binprolog — (language)   Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
  • biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
  • bioparent — a biological parent
  • biopiracy — the use of wild plants by international companies to develop medicines, without recompensing the countries from which they are taken
  • biopirate — a person who is responsible for biopiracy
  • biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
  • bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
  • blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
  • boat trip — a trip in a boat
  • body drop — a judo throw executed by grabbing the opponent as one is turning one's back and then extending a leg to pull the opponent down over it.
  • body part — a part of a human body
  • body wrap — a beauty treatment in which the body is covered in lotion and wrapped tightly in strips of cloth in order to promote weight loss or improve skin tone
  • bog paper — toilet paper
  • bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
  • bombproof — capable of withstanding the impact of bombs
  • bonaparte — Jérôme (ʒerom), brother of Napoleon I. 1784–1860, king of Westphalia (1807–13)
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