9-letter words containing o, i, l, e, r, s
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- 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.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- reclusion — the condition or life of a recluse.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- religiose — characterized by religiosity.
- religioso — a musical piece meant to be played devotionally
- religious — of, relating to, or concerned with religion: a religious holiday.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- resoiling — to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- resolicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- revulsion — a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike: Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
- rockslide — a fall of rocks down a hillside
- roseville — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- rosie lee — tea
- sail-over — a repetition of an indecisive or interrupted run of a racing yacht.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- sclerosis — Pathology. a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
- sclerotic — Also, scleral. Anatomy. of or relating to the sclera.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- scoreline — sports: intermediate or final score
- sectorial — of or relating to a sector.
- sensorial — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- sensorily — by (the use of) the senses, by means of the senses, in relation to or in respect of the senses
- seriously — in a serious manner: He shook his head seriously.
- serotinal — pertaining to or occurring in late summer.
- shoreline — the line where shore and water meet.
- slipcover — a cover of cloth or other material for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, made so as to be easily removable.
- slow fire — a rate of firing small arms that allows time to aim before each shot.
- soilborne — carried in soil
- soldering — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- soldierly — of, like, or befitting a soldier.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solferino — a village in SE Lombardy, in N Italy: battle 1859. 1811.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- sollicker — force; momentum.
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- sommelier — a waiter, as in a club or restaurant, who is in charge of wines.
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- sperm oil — a yellow, thin, water-insoluble liquid obtained from the sperm whale, used chiefly as a lubricant in light machinery, as watches, clocks, and scientific apparatus.
- spillover — the act of spilling over.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.