9-letter words containing p, l, e, n
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- impaneled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.
- impellent — impelling: an impellent power; an impellent cause.
- impelling — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
- implanted — Simple past tense and past participle of implant.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- implement — any article used in some activity, especially an instrument, tool, or utensil: agricultural implements.
- impletion — An act of filling; the state of being full.
- implexion — a complication or entanglement
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- in plenty — If there are things in plenty, those things exist or happen in large amounts or numbers.
- incapable — not capable.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- indalpine — A selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor marketed in 1983 as an antidepressant but swiftly withdrawn when found to cause neutropenia.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- jean paul — Burton, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1976.
- jet plane — an airplane moved by jet propulsion.
- jump line — a line of type identifying the page on or from which a newspaper story is continued.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- la puente — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- lagniappe — Chiefly Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas. a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of compliment or for good measure; bonus.
- lampooned — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- 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.
- lappeting — Present participle of lappet.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leadplant — a North American shrub, Amorpha canescens, of the legume family, the leaves and twigs of which have a gray cast.
- leptotene — a stage of cell division during the prophase of meiosis, in which the chromosomes are not distinct but appear as a mass of entangled threads.
- let up on — If you let up on someone or something, you stop being so harsh or strict with them.
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- life span — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lifespans — Plural form of lifespan.
- 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.
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).