9-letter words containing l, e, i, o, t, r
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- portatile — portable
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
- quercitol — a colorless, crystalline, sweet, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , obtained from acorns or oak bark: used chiefly in medicine.
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- repletion — the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
- reptiloid — having the form or shape of a reptile
- resolicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- retooling — to replace or rearrange the tools and machinery of (a factory).
- reviolate — to violate again
- revolting — disgusting; repulsive: a revolting sight.
- rhodolite — a rose or reddish-violet garnet, similar to pyrope, used as a gem.
- rigoletto — an opera (1851) with music by Giuseppe Verdi.
- routinely — a customary or regular course of procedure.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sclerotic — Also, scleral. Anatomy. of or relating to the sclera.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- steroidal — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- tailoress — a female tailor
- taylorite — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tectorial — a rooflike structure.
- televisor — an apparatus for transmitting or receiving television.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- tentorial — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- terricole — a plant or animal living on land
- textorial — relating to weaving or weavers
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn