9-letter words containing p, a, l, o, t, r
- 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.
- portolano — 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.
- portrayal — the act of portraying.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- 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.
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- 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.
- 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
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyrolater — a worshipper of fire
- pyrolatry — the worship of fire
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- strap-oil — a beating
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- ultraposh — extremely posh