9-letter words containing p, a, r, l
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- grappelli — Stéphane (ˈstɛfən) 1908–97, French jazz violinist: with Django Reinhardt, he led the Quintet of the Hot Club of France between 1934 and 1939
- grapplers — Plural form of grappler.
- grappling — a hook or an iron instrument by which one thing, as a ship, fastens onto another; grapnel.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- graspless — (of a person's hand) having no grasp, and hence loose, relaxed, etc
- grassplot — a plot of ground covered with or reserved for grass.
- grill pan — a wide, shallow metal vessel used to contain food that is being cooked under a grill
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- hair clip — clasp for securing hairstyle
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- impartial — not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- la trappe — La Trappe.
- labor spy — an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadary — a person who lights the lamps in an Orthodox Greek Church
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- land-poor — in need of ready money while owning much land.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- laplander — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- lapsarian — Of or pertaining to the fall of man from innocence, especially to the role of women in that fall.