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9-letter words containing p, l, o, i

  • plug into — If you plug into a computer system, you are able to use it or see the information stored on it.
  • plumbicon — a development of the vidicon television camera tube in which the photosensitive material is lead oxide
  • plutonian — Also, Plutonic [ploo-ton-ik] /pluˈtɒn ɪk/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or resembling Pluto or the lower world; infernal.
  • plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
  • plutonium — a transuranic element with a fissile isotope of mass number 239 (plutonium 239) that can be produced from non-fissile uranium 238, as in a breeder reactor. Symbol: Pu; atomic number: 94.
  • podsolize — to make into podsol.
  • podzolize — to make into or form a podzol
  • poeciliid — any small New World fish of the family Poeciliidae, of fresh or brackish tropical and temperate waters, including the mosquitofish, guppies, and mollies.
  • poeticule — an inferior poet
  • pointable — able to be pointed or pointed out
  • pointedly — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • pointelle — a knitting design, usually in the form of chevrons
  • pointille — (of book covers) decorated with a tooled pattern of dots.
  • pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
  • polarised — to cause polarization in.
  • polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
  • polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
  • polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
  • polemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
  • poliakoff — Stephen. born 1952, British playwright and film director; work includes the stage plays Breaking the Silence (1984) and Blinded by the Sun (1996) and the television serials The Lost Prince (2003), Friends and Crocodiles (2005), and Dancing on the Edge (2013)
  • polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
  • policeman — a member of a police force or body.
  • policemen — a member of a police force or body.
  • polisario — an independence movement opposing Moroccan control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory that Morocco annexed in stages beginning in 1976.
  • polish up — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
  • politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
  • politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
  • political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • politico- — Politico- is added to adjectives to form other adjectives that describe something as being both political and the other thing that is mentioned.
  • poll evil — an acute swelling on the top of the head of a horse originating in an inflamed bursa that underlies the great neck ligament there.
  • pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
  • pollinium — an agglutinated mass or body of pollen grains, characteristic of plants of the orchid and milkweed families.
  • pollinize — pollinate.
  • pollucite — a colourless rare mineral consisting of a hydrated caesium aluminium silicate, often containing some rubidium. It occurs in coarse granite, esp in Manitoba, and is an important source of caesium. Formula: CsAlSi2O6.1⁄2H2O
  • pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
  • pollution — the act of polluting or the state of being polluted.
  • pollutive — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
  • pollyfish — parrotfish.
  • polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
  • polverine — a glassmaker's potash
  • polyamide — a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the amide group –CONH–.
  • polyamine — a compound containing more than one amino group.
  • polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
  • polyaxial — having more than one axis
  • polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
  • polyconic — pertaining to or utilizing two or more cones.
  • polydemic — native to several countries or two or more regions.
  • polygamic — polygamous.
  • polygenic — one of a group of nonallelic genes that together control a quantitative characteristic in an organism.
  • polyimide — any of a class of polymers with an imido group: resistant to high temperatures, wear, radiation, and many chemicals.
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