9-letter words containing p, e, l, i, t
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- pleuritic — inflammation of the pleura, with or without a liquid effusion in the pleural cavity, characterized by a dry cough and pain in the affected side.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plot line — Usually, plot lines. dialogue that advances the plot, as in a play or motion-picture script.
- poeticule — an inferior poet
- 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.
- polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
- politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
- pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- 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.
- 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.
- portatile — portable
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- 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.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- 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
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- prefilter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- printable — capable of being printed.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- privately — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
- pterygial — an abnormal triangular mass of thickened conjunctiva extending over the cornea and interfering with vision.
- ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- ptolemy i — (surnamed Soter) 367?–280 b.c, ruler of Egypt 323–285: founder of Macedonian dynasty in Egypt.
- puerility — the state or quality of being a child.
- pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.