9-letter words containing p, l, i
- expulsing — Present participle of expulse.
- expulsion — The action of depriving someone of membership in an organization.
- expulsive — Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion.
- fair play — just and honorable treatment, action, or conduct: The political campaign was notably lacking in fair play.
- fallopian — Alternative form of Fallopian.
- felipe vi — born 1968, king of Spain from 2014; succeeded his father Juan Carlos, who abdicated
- field pea — a variety of the common pea, Pisum sativum arvense, grown for forage and silage.
- file type — (file format) The kind of data stored in a file. Most modern operating systems use the filename extension to determine the file type though others store this information elsewhere in the file system. The file type is used to choose an appropriate icon to represent the file in a GUI and the correct application with which to view, edit, run, or print the file. Different operating systems support different sets of file types though most agree on a large common set and allow arbitrary new types to be defined. See also MIME.
- fillipeen — philopena.
- film clip — a strip of motion-picture film, especially an excerpt from a longer film or one inserted as part of another presentation, as of a telecast or full-length motion picture.
- film pack — a number of sheets of film arranged one over the other and connected so that they can be exposed successively.
- filmstrip — a length of film containing a series of related transparencies for projection on a screen.
- filoplume — a specialized, hairlike feather having a slender shaft with few or no barbs.
- filopodia — thin projections extending from the edge of migrating cells
- fire opal — a red Mexican opal, often with a color play.
- fire-plow — a stick that is rubbed in a wooden groove to produce sparks for igniting a fire.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- fish pole — fishing pole.
- fish-pole — a long tapered flexible pole, often in jointed sections, for use with a fishing line and, usually, a reel
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- flagships — Plural form of flagship.
- flak ship — a ship heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, used to protect other vessels from air attack
- flat spin — an aircraft spin in which the longitudinal axis is more nearly horizontal than vertical
- flat-pick — to play (an instrument) by plucking its strings with a flat pick.
- flip over — turn upside down
- flip side — the reverse and usually less popular side of a phonograph record.
- flip-flop — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
- flip-spur — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- flipbooks — Plural form of flipbook.
- flipchart — A flipchart is a stand with large sheets of paper which is used when presenting information at a meeting.
- flipflops — Plural form of flipflop.
- flippancy — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floptical — Denoting or relating to a type of floppy-disk drive using a laser to position the read-write head.
- flue pipe — an organ pipe having a flue.
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- gallipoli — a peninsula in NW European Turkey, extending between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles. 50 miles (80 km) long.
- gallipots — Plural form of gallipot.
- galliwasp — any of numerous scaly marsh lizards of the genus Diploglossus, inhabiting Central America and the West Indies.
- galloping — at a gallop; running or moving quickly.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- gillespie — John Birks [burks] /bɜrks/ (Show IPA), ("Dizzy") 1917–93, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer.
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- glimpsing — Present participle of glimpse.
- glipizide — A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.