9-letter words containing p, o, i, l
- loop line — a railway branch line which leaves the main line and rejoins it after a short distance
- loopiness — The state or condition of being loopy; craziness.
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- lycopolis — the Ancient Greek name for Asyut
- lycopsids — Plural form of lycopsid.
- lyophiled — (of blood, serum, tissue, etc) freeze-dried
- lyophilic — noting a colloid the particles of which have a strong affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyophobic — noting a colloid the particles of which have little or no affinity for the liquid in which they are dispersed.
- lyotropic — noting any series of ions, salts, or radicals arranged in descending order relative to the magnitude of their effect on a given solvent.
- mail drop — a receptacle or one of a series of pigeonholelike slots, as in an office, into which incoming mail is placed for pickup.
- maildrops — Plural form of maildrop.
- main loop — (programming) The top-level control flow construct in an input- or event-driven program, the one which receives and acts or dispatches on the program's input events. See also driver.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- megalopia — macropsia.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megapolis — megalopolis.
- melitopol — a city in SE Ukraine, NW of the Sea of Azov: battles 1941, 1943.
- 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.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- millponds — Plural form of millpond.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- 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.
- multicopy — any of several or many copies (of a book, document, record, etc)
- multipion — involving several or many pions
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
- 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.
- 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.
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- nicopolis — city in ancient Epirus
- nilopolis — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- nilpotent — equal to zero when raised to a certain power.
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nonpliant — not pliant; inflexible
- nonpolice — not related to the police
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.