9-letter words containing p, l, i
- menopolis — an area or city with a high proportion of single men
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- microslop — (company, abuse) A derisive synonym for Microsoft Corporation. It refers to the sloppy, bug-ridden "x.0" versions of MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft products.
- mileposts — Plural form of milepost.
- millepede — any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- milliamps — Plural form of milliamp.
- millipede — any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- minipills — Plural form of minipill.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- mislippen — to distrust or suspect
- mispickel — arsenopyrite.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- misplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of misplay.
- misplease — (transitive) To fail in pleasing; displease.
- misspells — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misspell.
- mixoploid — an organism having an unequal number of chromosome sets in adjacent cells or tissues.
- mock lisp — The Lisp used by the Gosling Emacs editor.
- monoploid — having the basic or haploid number of chromosomes.
- multi-ply — having or composed of several plies: a multi-ply fabric.
- multicopy — any of several or many copies (of a book, document, record, etc)
- multilisp — (language) A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit concurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a "future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When the evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the value.
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- multipion — involving several or many pions
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiplet — a group of several related spectral lines, usually of nearly the same wavelengths.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
- 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
- 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.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol