9-Letter Words with I,N,O,O,P,S,T,_

• The science and technology of generating and controlling photons, particularly in the visible and near infrared light spectrum

• a fungal disease of onions

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

• someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman)

• a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg

• the act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink)

• the particular portion of space occupied by something

• a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons

• a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

• the arrangement of the body and its limbs

• the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society

• a job in an organization

• the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated

• the appropriate or customary location

• (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player

• the act of putting something in a certain place

• a condition or position in which you find yourself

• a rationalized mental attitude

• an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute

• an item on a list or in a sequence

• the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

• the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom

• cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

• put into a certain place or abstract location

• sail closer to the wind than

• score more points than one's opponents