9-letter words containing p, e, l, i, t
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lipectomy — the surgical removal of fatty tissue.
- lippitude — the state of having bleary or sore eyes
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiplet — a group of several related spectral lines, usually of nearly the same wavelengths.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nilpotent — equal to zero when raised to a certain power.
- ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
- oppilated — Simple past tense and past participle of oppilate.
- paillette — a spangle for ornamenting a costume.
- paintable — easily painted
- painterly — of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter.
- palafitte — a prehistoric dwelling
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- palestine — Also called Holy Land. Biblical name Canaan. an ancient country in SW Asia, on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- palleting — a small, low, portable platform on which goods are placed for storage or moving, as in a warehouse or vehicle.
- palletize — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palmitate — a salt or ester of palmitic acid.
- palpitate — to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter: His heart palpitated wildly.
- panellist — A panellist is a person who is a member of a panel and speaks in public, especially on a radio or television programme.
- papillote — a decorative curled paper placed over the end of the bone of a cutlet or chop.
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- patiently — a person who is under medical care or treatment.
- pearlitic — Metallurgy. a microscopic lamellar structure found in iron or steel, composed of alternating layers of ferrite and cementite.
- pectineal — of or relating to the pectineus muscle or the pubic bone
- pectolite — a mineral, hydrous calcium sodium silicate, usually occurring in radiating groups of crystals in rock cavities.
- pelletier — Wilfrid, 1896–1982, Canadian orchestra conductor.
- pelletify — to shape into pellets
- pelletize — to make or form (concentrated ore) into pellets.
- pellitory — any of various urticaceous plants of the S and W European genus Parietaria, esp P. diffusa (pellitory-of-the-wall or wall pellitory), that grow in crevices and have long narrow leaves and small pink flowers
- peltation — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- pentolite — a high explosive consisting of pentaerythritol tetranitrate and TNT.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs