9-letter words containing l, i, p, e, t
- perinatal — occurring during or pertaining to the phase surrounding the time of birth, from the twentieth week of gestation to the twenty-eighth day of newborn life.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
- petillant — slightly sparkling.
- petiolate — having a petiole or peduncle.
- petiolule — a small petiole, as of a leaflet in a compound leaf.
- petit mal — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized either by mild, episodic loss of attention or sleepiness (petit mal) or by severe convulsions with loss of consciousness (grand mal)
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- philately — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlebitis — inflammation of a vein, often occurring in the legs and involving the formation of a thrombus, characterized by swelling, pain, and change of skin color.
- phonolite — a fine-grained volcanic rock composed chiefly of alkali feldspar and nepheline, some varieties of which split into pieces that ring on being struck.
- phthalein — any of a group of compounds formed by treating phthalic anhydride with phenols, from which certain important dyes are derived.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- pie plant — rhubarb
- pie plate — a shallow metal or glass dish with sloping sides, used for cooking a pie
- pigmental — of or relating to a pigment or pigments, or the natural colouring of a person or thing
- pile into — crowd inside: a vehicle
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pin plate — a bearing plate having a projection for fixing into masonry.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- pintailed — having a tapered tail
- 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.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- pitchpole — (of a boat) to capsize end over end, as in heavy surf.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- pixelated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixilated — slightly eccentric or mentally disordered.
- placative — placatory.
- placentia — a town in S California.
- plain tex — (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community.
- plaintext — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plaintive — expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful: a plaintive melody.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- 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.
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- platelike — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platinate — Chemistry. a salt of platinic acid.
- platinize — to coat or plate with metallic platinum.
- platitude — a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
- platonize — to follow or adopt the doctrines of Plato.
- play-time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pleiotaxy — an increase in the normal number of parts.
- plenitude — fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.