9-letter words containing l, a, r, c
- parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- parodical — having or of the nature of a parody.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- 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.
- 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.
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- piratical — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plutocrat — a member of a plutocracy.
- polar cap — Geology. the icecap situated at either end of the earth's poles.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- practical — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- pre-clean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- precancel — to cancel (a stamp) before placing it on a piece of postal matter.
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- preplaced — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- prerectal — in front of the rectum
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- priscilla — a female given name: from a Roman family name.
- procellas — pucellas.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- prowl car — squad car.