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9-letter words containing c, o, p, r, l

  • microslop — (company, abuse)   A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
  • necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
  • opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
  • outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
  • parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
  • parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
  • parodical — having or of the nature of a parody.
  • patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
  • pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
  • percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
  • pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
  • placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
  • placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
  • placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
  • plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
  • plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
  • polar cap — Geology. the icecap situated at either end of the earth's poles.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
  • porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
  • portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
  • potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
  • practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
  • 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.
  • prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
  • preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
  • preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
  • procellas — pucellas.
  • proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
  • proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
  • proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
  • 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.
  • proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
  • prolicide — the killing of one's child.
  • prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
  • protocols — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
  • provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
  • prowl car — squad car.
  • pull cord — a cord attached to a blind, light switch, appliance, curtain etc which is pulled to operate it
  • pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
  • pyroxylic — resulting from the action of fire on wood
  • recompile — to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
  • rock pool — small body of seawater among rocks
  • scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
  • slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
  • supercoil — superhelix.
  • supercold — extremely cold
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