9-letter words containing p, l, o, i
- choplogic — excessively complicated argument
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clip-clop — the sound made by a horse's hooves
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- compilate — (rare) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
- compilers — Plural form of compiler.
- compiling — Present participle of compile.
- complains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complain.
- complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
- compliant — If you say that someone is compliant, you mean they willingly do what they are asked to do.
- complicit — If someone is complicit in a crime or unfair activity, they are involved in it.
- compliers — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- complying — Present participle of comply.
- comprisal — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comptible — (obsolete) accountable; responsible.
- copiloted — Simple past tense and past participle of copilot.
- copiously — large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food.
- coprolite — any of various rounded stony nodules thought to be the fossilized faeces of Palaeozic-Cenozoic vertebrates
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- couplings — Plural form of coupling.
- coverslip — a very thin piece of glass placed over a specimen on a glass slide that is to be examined under a microscope
- cow pilot — sergeant major (sense 3)
- crepoline — a light silk or silk and wool material used in dressmaking
- crop milk — a liquid secreted in the crop of certain adult pigeons and fed to their newly hatched young.
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cyclopian — having only one eye
- cynophile — A person who loves canines; a dog lover.
- decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
- decompile — Produce source code from (compiled code).
- demophile — A friend of the people.
- depletion — a depleting or being depleted
- deploring — Present participle of deplore.
- deploying — Present participle of deploy.
- despoiled — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- despoiler — to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- diplomacy — the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
- diplomaed — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- diplomata — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomate — a person who has received a diploma, especially a doctor, engineer, etc., who has been certified as a specialist by a board within the appropriate profession.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- diplontic — (of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form, except for the gametes, is diploid.
- diplopods — Plural form of diplopod.
- diplotene — a late stage of prophase during meiosis, in which the chromatid pairs of the tetrads begin to separate and chiasmata can be seen.
- diplozoic — (of certain animals) bilaterally symmetrical
- diplozoon — a type of parasitic flatworm that exists as a pair of worms fused together in an X shape. Diplozoa fuse after meeting as two juvenile individuals (genus Diporpae) and are parasitic on the gills of fish
- disemploy — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- dispeople — to deprive of people; depopulate.
- disposals — Plural form of disposal.