9-letter words containing l, i, t, a, p
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
- political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portatile — portable
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- practical — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- primality — the state of being primal
- primatial — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primitial — relating to primitiae
- printable — capable of being printed.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- 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.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pupillate — having a spot of a different colour in the middle
- putrilage — putrid or putrescent matter.
- pyritical — relating to pyrites
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
- reimplant — Surgery. to restore (a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure) to its original site.
- replicant — an android that is indistinguishable from a human being
- replicate — Also, replicated. folded; bent back on itself.
- reptilian — belonging or pertaining to the Reptilia.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scapolite — any of a group of minerals of variable composition, essentially silicates of aluminum, calcium, and sodium, occurring as massive aggregates or tetragonal crystals.
- sceptical — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
- skeptical — doubtful about a particular thing: My teacher thinks I can get a scholarship, but I'm skeptical.