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)