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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.
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