9-letter words containing p, l, e, n, u
- petulance — moodiness, irritability
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- planulate — flat
- plenilune — a full moon
- plenitude — fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- plentiful — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- plumbness — a small mass of lead or other heavy material, as that suspended by a line and used to measure the depth of water or to ascertain a vertical line. Compare plumb line.
- plumpness — well filled out or rounded in form; somewhat fleshy or fat.
- plunderer — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prudently — wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulverine — the alkaline ashes resulting from the burning of the barilla plant
- pulvinate — having the shape of a cushion; resembling a cushion; cushion-shaped.
- pulvinule — (at the base of a leafstalk) a small swelling
- pummeling — to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.
- punchless — having no punch
- punchline — The punchline of a joke or funny story is its last sentence or phrase, which gives it its humour.
- pure land — a paradise believed by the followers of a Mahayana sect (Pure Land sect) to be ruled over by a Buddha (Amida) whose hope it is to bring all beings into it.
- pure line — a uniform strain of organisms that is relatively pure genetically because of continued inbreeding and artificial selection.
- purloined — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purloiner — to take dishonestly; steal; filch; pilfer.
- purulence — pus.
- quill pen — dip pen made from feather
- quintuple — fivefold; consisting of five parts.
- repulsing — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- spelunked — to explore caves, especially as a hobby.
- spelunker — a person who explores caves, especially as a hobby.
- spinulate — having a spine or spines
- spleenful — full of or displaying spleen.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- superlong — extremely long
- tangle up — become knotted or intertwined
- unadeptly — in an unadept or unskilled manner
- unapparel — to undress or to remove of clothing
- unapplied — having a practical purpose or use; derived from or involved with actual phenomena (distinguished from theoretical, opposed to pure): applied mathematics; applied science.
- uncapable — incapable.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- uncleship — the position or status of an uncle; the condition of being an uncle