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9-letter words containing k, p, e, l

  • maplelike — Resembling a maple tree or some aspect of one.
  • mispickel — arsenopyrite.
  • nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
  • oak apple — oak gall.
  • open look — (operating system)   A graphical user interface and window manager from Sun and AT&T.
  • pall-like — a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.
  • palsylike — resembling palsy
  • parakelia — a succulent herb of the genus Calandrinia, with purple flowers, that thrives in inland Australia
  • parbuckle — a kind of tackle for raising or lowering a cask or similar object along an inclined plane or a vertical surface, consisting of a rope looped over a post or the like, with its two ends passing around the object to be moved.
  • parkville — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • peak load — the maximum load on an electrical power-supply system
  • peekskill — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
  • permalink — a permanent URL that links to a specific web page, typically a single blog entry or news article.
  • perp walk — an arranged public appearance of a recently arrested criminal for the benefit of the media
  • pike pole — (in lumbering) a long pole with a metal point and a fixed hook, for catching and guiding logs.
  • pine-like — similar to or resembling pine
  • placekick — a kick made while the ball is in place, often held in place, on the ground, as in kicking off or in attempting a field goal
  • plackless — lacking money; penniless
  • plantlike — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
  • platemark — hallmark.
  • playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
  • plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
  • pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
  • pokelogan — marshy or stagnant water that has branched off from a stream or lake.
  • polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
  • polo neck — high turtleneck collar
  • polokwane — a town in NE South Africa, the capital of Limpopo province: commercial and agricultural centre. Pop: 90 398 (2001)
  • potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
  • proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
  • puppylike — resembling a puppy or the manner of a puppy
  • purselike — resembling a purse
  • puttylike — resembling or characteristic of putty
  • sheeplike — any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
  • sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
  • skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.
  • ski slope — snow-covered hill at ski resort
  • skippable — able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant.
  • sleeplike — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sleepwalk — to engage in sleepwalking.
  • spacewalk — a task or mission performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft in space.
  • spadelike — resembling a spade
  • sparkless — having no spark
  • speakable — to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice; talk: He was too ill to speak.
  • spearlike — resembling a spear
  • special k — an animal anaesthetic, ketamine hydrochloride, sold illegally as a hallucinogenic drug
  • speckless — having no specks or dirt
  • speedwalk — an endless conveyor belt, moving walk, or the like used to transport standing persons from place to place.
  • spelunked — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
  • spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
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