9-letter words containing p, r, o
- drop girt — a girt running beneath the ends of joists and at right angles to them.
- drop goal — In rugby, a drop goal is a goal that a player scores by dropping the ball and kicking it between the posts.
- drop keel — centerboard.
- drop kick — In sports such as football and rugby, a drop kick is a kick in which the ball is dropped to the ground and kicked at the moment that it bounces.
- drop leaf — a hinged leaf attached to the end or side of a table that can be raised to extend the tabletop or folded vertically downward when not in use.
- drop pass — (in hockey and soccer) a pass in which a player in control of the ball or puck simply leaves it to be picked up by a trailing teammate and continues past it to draw off the defense.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drop zone — an area into which paratroopers, soldiers, or supplies are landed from aircraft for a military operation. Abbreviation: DZ.
- drop-dead — inspiring awe, astonishment, or envy: a drop-dead guest list; a drop-dead sable coat.
- drop-down — computer menu, list: displayed when selected
- drop-kick — to score (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a drop kick.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- drop-ship — to ship (goods) as a drop shipment: The books will be drop-shipped by the publisher to your home.
- dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
- dropkicks — Plural form of dropkick.
- droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
- droppable — Capable of being dropped (especially by an aircraft).
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- dry point — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- dry slope — an artificial ski slope used for tuition and practice
- dryomorph — any member of the extinct genus Dryopithecus.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- ear drops — Ear drops are medicine that you put directly in your ears one drop at a time.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- eavesdrop — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- ecosphere — Also called physiological atmosphere. the part of the atmosphere in which it is possible to breathe normally without aid: the portion of the troposphere from sea level to an altitude of about 13,000 feet (4000 meters).
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- ectoproct — bryozoan; formerly, one of two broad types of bryozoan.
- ectropion — A condition, typically a consequence of advanced age, in which the eyelid is turned outward away from the eyeball.
- ectropium — Ectropion.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- embla pro — (messaging, tool) An IMAP-compliant electronic mail client from WinSoft Products Ltd. EMBLA Pro allows you to use an IMAP mail server in a true client/server network manner, once you've connected to the IMAP server, you can organise messages into folders on the server and you can view messages and any attached files at the server before deciding whether or not to download them to your local system. IMAP allows the user to select individual message attachments to be viewed and/or downloaded. You can delete files and messages from the server, move or copy them to the local computer or leave them for future retrieval. EMBLA Pro also supports the standard POP3 protocol. Both POP3 and IMAP2 run over E-SMTP. The IMAP Unix daemons can support specific environments, for example, Sun MailTool attachments. All flavours of Unix are catered for with a suite of binary mail daemons, eg: SunSoft Solaris, HP, IBM and SCO. EMBLA conforms to the SMTP, E-SMTP, MIME and IMAP Internet standards - RFC1590 (RFC1521), RFC1522, RFC1426, RFC1425, RFC1176, RFC0822, RFC0821 and the draft update of RFC1176.
- emmetrope — A person with emmetropia, perfect vision.
- emploring — Present participle of implore.
- employers — Plural form of employer.
- emporiums — Plural form of emporium.
- empowered — (US) Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
- endocarps — Plural form of endocarp.
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.