9-letter words containing p, l, e, n
- line drop — the decrease in voltage between two points on an electric line, often caused by resistance or leakage along the line.
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- lippiness — the characteristic of being excessively outspoken or brash
- 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.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- loop line — a railway branch line which leaves the main line and rejoins it after a short distance
- loopiness — The state or condition of being loopy; craziness.
- loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- lovespoon — Alternative spelling of love spoon.
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manyplies — Omasum.
- meal plan — outline of what to cook and eat
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- melpomene — the Muse of tragedy.
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- monoplane — an airplane with one main sustaining surface or one set of wings.
- monopoles — Plural form of monopole.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- nameplate — a flat, usually rectangular piece of metal, wood, or plastic on which the name of a person, company, etc., is printed or engraved: She has a large office with her nameplate on the door.
- napoleons — Plural form of napoleon.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- 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)
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neon lamp — a gas-discharge bulb containing two electrodes in neon gas and emitting a glow when a voltage is applied across the electrodes.
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- neopilina — any primitive mollusk of the genus Neopilina, having a serial repetition of internal organs that suggests a close relationship to the annelids.
- neoplasia — Pathology. tumor growth.
- neoplasms — Plural form of neoplasm.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nepheline — a feldspathoid mineral, essentially sodium aluminum silicate, NaAlSiO 4 , occurring in alkali-rich volcanic rocks.
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- nilpotent — equal to zero when raised to a certain power.
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nonplaced — Not assigned a place.
- nonplayer — a person that is not playing
- nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonpluses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nonplus.
- nonpolice — not related to the police