9-letter words containing e, m, p, o, l
- homophile — a homosexual.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- implexion — a complication or entanglement
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impotable — (rare) Not drinkable.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- leptosome — a person of asthenic build.
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- liposomes — Plural form of liposome.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- maplewood — a city in SE Minnesota, near St. Paul.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- melampode — the black hellebore, Helleborus niger
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- melpomene — the Muse of tragedy.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- merpeople — Plural form of merperson.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- metroplex — a vast metropolitan area that encompasses several cities and their suburbs: We're moving to the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
- metropole — A metropolis; the main city of a country or area. (from 15th c.).
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- mole plow — a plow typically having a pointed shoe at the end of a vertical support, for cutting a hollow drainage channel below the surface.
- monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
- monopoles — Plural form of monopole.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- pademelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- palampore — a cotton print woven in India and used for clothing, canopies, etc.
- palempore — an ornately patterned Indian cloth; a bed covering
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pelviform — basin-shaped