9-letter words containing a, l, i, t, r
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- oratorial — A rarer form of oratorical.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
- paralytic — a person affected with paralysis.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- partially — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- patriliny — the tracing of descent exclusively through the male members of a family.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- piratical — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- planarity — of or relating to a geometric plane.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- pluralist — Philosophy. a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle. Compare dualism (def 2), monism (def 1a). a theory that reality consists of two or more independent elements.
- plurality — the excess of votes received by the leading candidate, in an election in which there are three or more candidates, over those received by the next candidate (distinguished from majority).
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portatile — portable
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- practical — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- 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.
- primality — the state of being primal
- primatial — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primitial — relating to primitiae
- printable — capable of being printed.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- quantrill — William Clarke, 1837–65, Confederate guerrilla leader.