9-letter words containing n, u, l, i
- ominously — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- outflying — Present participle of outfly.
- outlawing — Present participle of outlaw.
- outlaying — an expending or spending, as of money.
- outlinear — relating to an outline
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outlining — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- outliving — Present participle of outlive.
- ovalbumin — the principal protein of egg white.
- ovulation — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- palanquin — (formerly in India and other Eastern countries) a passenger conveyance, usually for one person, consisting of a covered or boxlike litter carried by means of poles resting on the shoulders of several men.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- penduline — (of a bird's nest) hanging; resembling a pendant
- peninsula — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- planuloid — relating to a planula
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- plenilune — a full moon
- 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.
- ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plug into — If you plug into a computer system, you are able to use it or see the information stored on it.
- plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
- plus sign — the symbol (+) indicating summation or a positive quality.
- plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- plutonium — a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 (plutonium 239) that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.
- pollinium — an agglutinated mass or body of pollen grains, characteristic of plants of the orchid and milkweed families.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- pollution — the act of polluting or the state of being polluted.
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- puffingly — in a puffing manner
- pull into — When a vehicle or driver pulls into a place, the vehicle moves into the place and stops there.
- pull-ring — a small piece of metal with a ring attached which is pulled to open cans of food, drink, etc
- pulsating — throbbing
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.