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9-letter words containing p, e, l, t, o

  • tempelhof — a district of S West Berlin: international airport.
  • tent pole — a pole which is used to hold up a tent
  • teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
  • terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • the polls — the place where people vote during an election
  • tide pool — tidal pool.
  • tidepools — tidal pool.
  • tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
  • tooled up — an implement, especially one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
  • top shelf — of highest quality
  • top-level — at a high level: a top-level conference.
  • top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
  • top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
  • topcastle — a large fighting top used in medieval ships.
  • tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
  • trollopee — a loose dress or gown worn in the 18th century by women
  • tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
  • turcopole — during the Crusades, a type of lightly armed and low-ranking soldier belonging to the Order of St John of Jerusalem, used mainly as mounted archers and scouts
  • turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
  • underplot — a plot subordinate to another plot, as in a novel.
  • unpiloted — without a pilot; unguided
  • unpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
  • upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • wellpoint — a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area so that it can be pumped away, as to prevent an excavation from filling with ground water.
  • zelotypia — (formal) jealousy.
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