9-letter words containing p, o, l, n
- pyroxylin — a nitrocellulose compound containing fewer nitrate groups than guncotton, used in the manufacture of artificial silk, leather, oilcloth, etc.
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- repletion — the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
- repolling — a sampling or collection of opinions on a subject, taken from either a selected or a random group of persons, as for the purpose of analysis.
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- rompingly — in a romping manner
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- salpingo- — indicating the Fallopian tubes
- san pablo — a city in the Philippines, on S Luzon.
- scopoline — a soluble crystalline alkaloid obtained from the decomposition of scopolamine and used as a sedative. Formula: C8H13NO2
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- sinophile — a person who admires or has a strong liking for China, the Chinese, or their culture.
- slant-top — (especially of a desk) having a slant front.
- slap down — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
- slipnoose — a noose with a knot that slides along the rope, thus forming a noose that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- slop sink — a deep sink for emptying slop pails and the like.
- snap roll — a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a fast roll
- snap-roll — to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
- snow-plow — an implement or machine for clearing away snow from highways, railroad tracks, etc.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- spelldown — a spelling competition that begins with all the contestants standing and that ends when all but one, the winner, have been required to sit down due to a specified number of misspellings.
- splendour — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spoilsman — a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils.
- spondulix — money; cash.
- spondylo- — vertebra
- spongefly — any of several insects of the family Sisyridae, the aquatic larvae of which feed on freshwater sponges.
- sponsalia — marriage; espousals
- sponsible — responsible
- spoonbill — any of several wading birds of the family Plataleidae, related to the ibises, having a long, flat bill with a spoonlike tip.
- sporeling — Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- superlong — extremely long
- telephone — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telephony — the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
- telepoint — a system providing a place where a cordless telephone can be connected to a telephone network
- tent pole — a pole which is used to hold up a tent
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- tonle sap — a lake in W Cambodia, draining into the Mekong River.
- tonoplast — a membrane separating a vacuole from the surrounding cytoplasm in a plant cell.
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- toppingly — excellently; wonderfully
- town plan — a comprehensive document which sets out a vision of the physical and social development of a town, including the construction of facilities
- tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
- tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- uncoupler — an agent responsible for the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation
- underplot — a plot subordinate to another plot, as in a novel.
- unhopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- unpeopled — without people; uninhabited.
- unpiloted — without a pilot; unguided
- unpoliced — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.