9-letter words containing p, o, l
- phytology — botany.
- piacevole — (to be performed) in a pleasant, agreeable manner
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- picadillo — a traditional Latin American and Spanish dish of ground meat, onions, tomatoes, raisins, olives, and spices.
- picholine — a variety of mild green olive from France which is cured in salt brine
- pictorial — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pike pole — (in lumbering) a long pole with a metal point and a fixed hook, for catching and guiding logs.
- pilcomayo — a river in S central South America, flowing SE from S Bolivia along the boundary between Paraguay and Argentina to the Paraguay River at Asunción. 1000 miles (1610 km) long.
- pile into — crowd inside: a vehicle
- pile shoe — an iron casting shaped to a point and fitted to a lower end of a wooden or concrete pile
- pillarbox — a technique for displaying a video recorded in portrait orientation on a wider screen by reducing its size but retaining the aspect ratio, with black bands filling the screen to the right and left of the picture (often used attributively): pillarbox format. Compare letterbox (def 2).
- pillicock — a penis
- pilloried — a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.
- pillorize — to pillory (someone or something)
- pilomotor — causing movement of hairs
- pilonidal — noting or pertaining to a growth of hair in a dermoid cyst or in the deeper layers of the skin.
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
- pilotweed — the compass plant, Silphium laciniatum.
- pipe roll — an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries
- piperonal — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble aldehyde, C 8 H 6 O 3 , which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in perfumery and organic synthesis.
- piroplasm — babesia.
- pisanello — Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), (Antonio Pisano) 1397–1455? Italian painter and medalist.
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistology — the branch of theology dealing with faith.
- pitchpole — (of a boat) to capsize end over end, as in heavy surf.
- pivotable — capable of turning on or as if on a pivot
- pivotally — of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
- pizzaiola — (of a sauce or dish) made with tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, and other seasonings
- placation — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placatory — serving, tending, or intended to placate: a placatory reply.
- placitory — of or relating to pleas made to support a claim or a defence
- placoderm — any of various extinct jawed fishes of the class Placodermi, dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian Period and characterized by bony armored plates on the head and upper trunk.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- planation — the process whereby an irregular land surface is made flat or level by erosion.
- planeload — the amount of people or cargo an airplane can carry.
- planetoid — an asteroid.
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- plant out — When you plant out young plants, you plant them in the ground in the place where they are to be left to grow.
- plant pot — A plant pot is a container that is used for growing plants.
- planuloid — relating to a planula
- plasmasol — the relatively fluid, inner cytoplasm of a pseudopod of an ameba.
- plasmodia — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plastisol — a dispersion of resin in a plasticizer, forming a liquid or paste that gels when heated.
- plate-dog — a heavy metal plate on which plates, stereos, etc., are locked into position for printing on a rotary press.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platinoid — resembling platinum: the platinoid elements.