9-Letter Words Containing: R,O,T,H

• surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms

• one thousand periods per second

• a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

• plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte

• a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay

• lift with a pitchfork

• an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

• characteristic of an atavist

• the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)

• a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards

• a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas

• a quilt made by sewing patches of different materials together

• sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern