9-letter words containing o, p, t, e, l
- pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
- pointedly — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- pointelle — a knitting design, usually in the form of chevrons
- pointille — (of book covers) decorated with a tooled pattern of dots.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
- politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
- pollenate — pollinate
- pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- pollucite — a colourless rare mineral consisting of a hydrated caesium aluminium silicate, often containing some rubidium. It occurs in coarse granite, esp in Manitoba, and is an important source of caesium. Formula: CsAlSi2O6.1⁄2H2O
- pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- polyester — Chemistry. a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the group –COO–, usually formed by polymerizing a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, plastics, and textile fibers.
- polyether — a polymeric ether.
- polystyle — having many columns.
- polythene — polyethylene.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portatile — portable
- portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- pot belly — Someone who has a pot belly has a round, fat stomach which sticks out, either because they eat or drink too much, or because they have had very little to eat for some time.
- pot metal — an alloy of copper and lead, formerly used for making plumbing fixtures, bearings, etc.
- pot-belly — a distended or protuberant belly.
- pot-holed — A pot-holed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
- potholder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- poulticed — a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot as a medicament to the body.
- powellite — a rare mineral with formula CaMoO4, forming tetragonal crystals
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- 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.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.