9-letter words containing e, l, i, p, t
- epistolet — a short letter
- epistolic — Relating to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
- epitaxial — Of, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy.
- epithecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the epitheca, the upper half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- epithelia — Plural form of epithelium.
- epulation — the act of feasting
- etioplast — (biology) A chloroplast that has never been exposed to light.
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- exit poll — survey of voters
- expletive — An oath or swear word.
- explicate — Analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail.
- exploited — Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
- exploiter — One who exploits.
- file type — (file format) The kind of data stored in a file. Most modern operating systems use the filename extension to determine the file type though others store this information elsewhere in the file system. The file type is used to choose an appropriate icon to represent the file in a GUI and the correct application with which to view, edit, run, or print the file. Different operating systems support different sets of file types though most agree on a large common set and allow arbitrary new types to be defined. See also MIME.
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helipilot — a helicopter pilot
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- impellent — impelling: an impellent power; an impellent cause.
- implanted — Simple past tense and past participle of implant.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- implement — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- implicate — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- in plenty — If there are things in plenty, those things exist or happen in large amounts or numbers.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- kallitype — an photographic printing process using silver and ferric salts, popular in the 19th century
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- lapidated — to pelt with stones.
- lappeting — Present participle of lappet.