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9-letter words containing a, p, o, l, i, r

  • precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
  • precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • prelation — the setting of one above another
  • profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
  • 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.
  • prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
  • prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
  • prosodial — of or relating to prosody
  • pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
  • rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
  • raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
  • rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
  • saprobial — relating to saprobity
  • saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
  • slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
  • spoliator — a plunderer
  • sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
  • strap-oil — a beating
  • uropygial — of or relating to the uropygium.
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