9-letter words containing l, p, a, t
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postulata — things postulated
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- pot metal — an alloy of copper and lead, formerly used for making plumbing fixtures, bearings, etc.
- pot plant — A pot plant is a plant which is grown in a container, especially indoors.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- 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- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- pratfalls — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelatess — a female prelate
- 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
- prelature — the office of a prelate.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- prerectal — in front of the rectum
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- 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.
- pretravel — occurring prior to travel
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- 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
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- protozoal — relating to protozoans
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- 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.
- puftaloon — a fried scone
- pullulate — to send forth sprouts, buds, etc.; germinate; sprout.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.