9-letter words containing p, l, i
- pilfering — stealing, petty theft
- pilgarlic — a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- pilgrimer — a pilgrim
- pillaging — the act of robbing a town, village, etc of booty or spoils, esp during a war
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pillarist — in the Byzantine era, a Christian ascetic who stayed on top of a high pillar as a form of religious self-denial
- pillicock — a penis
- pilloried — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pilomotor — causing movement of hairs
- pilonidal — noting or pertaining to a growth of hair in a dermoid cyst or in the deeper layers of the skin.
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
- pimpernel — a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, especially A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel) having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
- pin plate — a bearing plate having a projection for fixing into masonry.
- pinballer — a person who plays pinball machines, especially regularly or habitually.
- pine-like — similar to or resembling pine
- pineapple — the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves.
- pinelands — the, an extensive coastal region in S and SE New Jersey, composed chiefly of pine stands, sandy soils, and swampy streams. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- pineville — a town in central Louisiana.
- pink lady — a cocktail made with gin, grenadine, and the white of eggs, shaken and strained before serving.
- pink slip — termination of employment
- pink-slip — to dismiss from a job: He will be pink-slipped next month.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- pintailed — having a tapered tail
- pipe clay — a white, plastic clay used for making clay tobacco pipes or pottery, for whitening leather, etc.
- pipe line — A pipe line is a pipe which carries fluids over a long distance.
- pipe roll — an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries
- pipe-clay — to whiten with pipe clay.
- pipelined — pipeline
- pipeliner — a person or company that specializes in laying pipelines.
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- piratical — a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea.
- piroplasm — babesia.
- pis aller — the last resort or the final resource.
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- pistillar — belonging or relating to a pistil
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- pitchpole — (of a boat) to capsize end over end, as in heavy surf.
- pitifully — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- pityingly — full of or expressing pity: a pitying look.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- pivotally — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.