9-letter words containing e, l, p
- penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- pennoncel — a small pennon, as at the head of a lance.
- pennyland — in Caithness and the Orkney and Shetland islands a piece of land on which one penny's worth of tax was owed to the overlord
- pensacola — a seaport in NW Florida, on Pensacola Bay.
- pensively — dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- pentalogy — a combination of five closely related things, esp (in medicine) closely connected symptoms or (in art) related works of art
- pentalpha — pentagram.
- pentangle — pentagram.
- pentathla — pentathlons
- pentolite — a high explosive consisting of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and TNT.
- pentylene — any unsaturated hydrocarbon with formula C5H8
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- penumbral — Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).
- pep rally — a meeting, especially of students before an interscholastic athletic contest, to stimulate group enthusiasm by rousing talks, songs, cheers, etc.
- percaline — a fine, lightweight cotton fabric, usually finished with a gloss and dyed in one color, used especially for linings.
- perceable — pierceable
- percental — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- percivale — a knight who is allowed to see the Holy Grail
- percolate — to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
- perendale — a Romney-Cheviot crossbreed of sheep
- perennial — lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
- perfectly — in a perfect manner or to a perfect degree: to sing an aria perfectly.
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- periclean — of or relating to Pericles or to the period (Periclean Age) when Athens was intellectually, artistically, and materially preeminent.
- pericline — a variety of albite occurring in large, white opaque crystals.
- pericycle — the outermost cell layer of the stele in a plant, frequently becoming a multilayered zone.
- perihelia — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
- perilless — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- permabull — an investor who consistently acts in the expectation that the value of stocks and shares will rise
- permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
- permalloy — any of various alloys containing iron and nickel (45–80 per cent) and sometimes smaller amounts of chromium and molybdenum
- permeable — capable of being permeated.
- perorally — through or via the mouth
- perp walk — an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
- perpetual — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- perplexed — bewildered; puzzled: a perplexed state of mind.
- perplexer — someone who or something that perplexes (someone)
- perradial — relating to the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- personals — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- personnel — a body of persons employed in an organization or place of work.
- perusable — having the ability to be perused
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.