9-letter words containing l, a, p, u
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- jump bail — property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time.
- jump ball — a ball tossed into the air above and between two opposing players by the referee in putting the ball into play.
- jump dial — a timepiece dial in which the numbers are seen through apertures.
- jump lead — Jump leads are thick electrical leads that are used to connect a flat battery in a vehicle to an external charged battery, such as the battery of another vehicle, so that the first vehicle can be started.
- la puente — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- larruping — very; exceedingly: That was a larruping good meal.
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- lumpy jaw — actinomycosis.
- lunchpail — lunchbox.
- manipular — of or relating to the Roman maniple.
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
- navy plug — a strong, dark tobacco in plug form.
- nullipara — a woman who has never borne a child.
- nullspace — (math) The kernel of a linear map between two vector spaces or two modules.
- opelousas — a city in S Louisiana.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outgallop — to gallop faster than or overtake by galloping
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- palanquin — (formerly in India and other Eastern countries) a passenger conveyance, usually for one person, consisting of a covered or boxlike litter carried by means of poles resting on the shoulders of several men.
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- palladous — of or containing bivalent palladium.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- pampeluna — Pamplona.
- pansexual — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.
- papillule — a mini papilla
- par value — face value (def 1).
- paragould — a city in NE Arkansas.
- paralogue — either of a pair of genes derived from the same ancestral gene
- paramylum — a polysaccharide occurring as a reserve carbohydrate in the cytoplasm of Euglena
- 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.