9-letter words containing a, p, o, n
- 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
- pomerania — a former province of NE Germany, now mostly in NW Poland.
- pompeiian — of or relating to Pompeii, or its culture.
- ponderate — deliberate or intentional
- ponderosa — a North American pine tree
- pondoland — an area in SE central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Pondo people
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- pontianak — a seaport on W Kalimantan (Borneo), in central Indonesia.
- pony pack — a tray of usually one dozen growing plants that can be bought from a nursery for transplanting: a pony pack of tomato plants.
- porbandar — a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- portinari — Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- 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.
- postwoman — female postal worker
- pot plant — A pot plant is a plant which is grown in a container, especially indoors.
- potentate — a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- poundcake — a rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.
- powderman — a person in charge of explosives, especially in a demolition crew.
- power nap — a short sleep taken during the working day with the intention of improving the quality of work later in the day
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- pozzolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
- praenomen — the first or personal name of a Roman citizen, as “Gaius” in “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.
- pranksome — tending to play pranks; mischievous; prankish
- pre-roman — of or relating to the ancient or modern city of Rome, or to its inhabitants and their customs and culture: Roman restaurants.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predomain — (theory) A domain with no bottom element.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prenomina — praenomen.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preordain — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.