9-Letter Words Containing: S,T,R,O,P,H,E

• The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).

• To assign a vessel a port to act as its home.

• a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

• a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot

• any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs

• a shard of pottery

• The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (expected form would be *sfera).

• A type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

• a window in a ship or airplane

• an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

• a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

• any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

• undergo atrophy

• provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers