9-letter words containing a, p, e, l
- plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- play date — an appointment made by several parents to have their young children play together.
- play hell — To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another.
- play safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playfield — a field for sports or public festivities
- playhouse — a theater.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- pleadable — capable of being pleaded, as a case in court.
- pleadings — the act of a person who pleads.
- pleasance — a place laid out as a pleasure garden or promenade.
- pleaseman — a person who courts favour
- pleasence — Donald. 1919–95, British actor. His films include Dr Crippen (1962) and Cul de Sac (1966)
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleatless — having no pleats
- plein-air — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pleonexia — excessive greed
- plexiglas — material: acrylic glass
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- pluggable — a piece of wood or other material used to stop up a hole or aperture, to fill a gap, or to act as a wedge.
- plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- ply metal — a composition of dissimilar metals bonded together in sheet form.
- poachable — able to be poached
- pocatello — a city in SE Idaho.
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- pole bean — any vinelike variety of bean that is trained to grow upright on a pole, trellis, fence, etc.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-axed — If someone is pole-axed, they are so surprised or shocked that they do not know what to say or do.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- pollenate — pollinate
- pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.