9-letter words containing a, p, l, n, o
- play upon — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playgoing — the activity of attending the theatre
- 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
- plication — the act or procedure of folding.
- plotinian — of, relating to, or in accordance with Plotinus or his philosophy.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
- pole bean — any vinelike variety of bean that is trained to grow upright on a pole, trellis, fence, 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).
- pollutant — something that pollutes.
- pollyanna — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
- 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.
- polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
- polyandry — the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time. Compare monandry (def 1).
- polyantha — a type of clustering flower
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- polygonal — a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polypnoea — rapid breathing; panting.
- polytonal — marked by or using polytonality.
- polyzonal — having many zones
- pondoland — an area in SE central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Pondo people
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- 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.
- portolano — 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.
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- postnatal — subsequent to childbirth: postnatal infection.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- pot plant — A pot plant is a plant which is grown in a container, especially indoors.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- pozzolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- 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.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- puftaloon — a fried scone
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- puzzolana — pozzolana.