9-letter words containing a, l, i, p, t, e
- placentia — a town in S California.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platinate — Chemistry. a salt of platinic acid.
- platinize — to coat or plate with metallic platinum.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- platonize — to follow or adopt the doctrines of Plato.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
- pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
- portatile — portable
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pupillate — having a spot of a different colour in the middle
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
- slip seat — an upholstered seat having its own frame that fits loosely into the frame of a chair.
- sparticle — a hypothetical elementary particle thought to have been produced in the Big Bang