9-letter words containing a, e, l, u, r
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- perpetual — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- praeludia — musical preludes
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- prehallux — (of some mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) an undeveloped digit growing on the inner side of a hind limb
- prelature — the office of a prelate.
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- puerperal — of or relating to a woman in childbirth.
- pulqueria — a tavern selling pulque.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- purgeable — to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- purpureal — having a purple colour
- pursuable — to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- quadrella — four nominated horse races in which the punter bets on selecting the four winners
- quadrille — a card game played by four persons.
- quadruple — fourfold; consisting of four parts: a quadruple alliance.
- qualifier — a person or thing that qualifies.
- quarreled — Simple past tense and past participle of quarrel.
- quarreler — One who quarrels or is disposed to do so. An arguer or disputer.
- quarterly — occurring, done, paid, issued, etc., at the end of every quarter of a year: a quarterly report; quarterly interest.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- real user — 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage. 2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc.) other than pure exploration. See user. Hackers who are also students may also be real users. "I need this fixed so I can do a problem set. I'm not complaining out of randomness, but as a real user." See also luser.
- realaudio — (tool, communications) A program from Real Media for playing audio over the Internet, and the lossy audio compression format it uses. The system is implemented as a client/server architecture. The RealAudio server incorporates an encoder which compresses sound into RealAudio files. The client side is a web browser plug-in or add-on (a recent version of Internet Explorer apparently has built-in support for RealAudio) which allows the stream of data sent from the server to be uncompressed and output using the normal sound facilities of the computer, such as a sound card. A 14.4 KBps or better modem is required, and a 28.8 KBps connection is recommended for music-quality sound.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recruital — an act of recruiting
- refutable — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- regardful — observant; attentive; heedful (often followed by of): a man regardful of the feelings of others.
- regulable — that can be regulated; controllable.
- regularly — at regular times or intervals.
- regulator — a person or thing that regulates.
- relacquer — to apply a new coat of lacquer to (something)