9-letter words containing l, e, t, u, p
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nonuplets — Plural form of nonuplet.
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- opulently — In an opulent manner.
- outpeople — to rid (a country) of its people
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of outplay.
- outsleeps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsleep.
- pendulate — to swing in the motion of a pendulum
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- perpetual — continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
- petiolule — a small petiole, as of a leaflet in a compound leaf.
- petroleum — oil used for fuel
- petroleur — a male individual who uses petroleum to cause explosions or fires
- petulance — moodiness, irritability
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- planulate — flat
- plaquette — a small plaque
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- plateaued — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- plenitude — fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plummeted — Also called plumb bob. a piece of lead or some other weight attached to a line, used for determining perpendicularity, for sounding, etc.; the bob of a plumb line.
- plumulate — covered with soft fine feathers
- pocketful — the amount that a pocket will hold.
- poeticule — an inferior poet
- pollucite — a colourless rare mineral consisting of a hydrated caesium aluminium silicate, often containing some rubidium. It occurs in coarse granite, esp in Manitoba, and is an important source of caesium. Formula: CsAlSi2O6.1⁄2H2O
- pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- poulticed — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- prelature — the office of a prelate.
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- puerility — the state or quality of being a child.
- pullulate — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity