9-letter words containing p, o, l
- polystyle — having many columns.
- polythene — polyethylene.
- polytonal — marked by or using polytonality.
- polytypic — having or involving many or several types.
- polyvinyl — pertaining to or derived from a vinyl polymer.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- polyzoary — a colony of bryozoan animals
- polyzonal — having many zones
- polyzooid — composed of a colony of zooids
- pompholyx — a type of eczema
- pompously — characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- pond life — the animals that live in ponds
- pond lily — any of several water lilies, as the common water lily, Nymphaea odorata, or the spatterdock.
- pondoland — an area in SE central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by the Pondo people
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- pontypool — a town in Torfaen, in SE Wales.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- pool hall — poolroom (def 1).
- poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
- poor-will — a goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, of western North America.
- popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- poplog ml — SML for the Poplog system from the University of Sussex, UK.
- popularly — by the people as a whole; generally; widely: a fictitious story popularly accepted as true.
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portatile — portable
- portfolio — a flat, portable case for carrying loose papers, drawings, etc.
- portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- portolano — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- portrayal — the act of portraying.
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- posologic — of or relating to doses of medicines
- post mill — a windmill built round a central post on which the whole mill can be turned so that the sails catch the wind
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postfault — taking place after a fault
- postfixal — of or relating to a postfix, having postfixes
- postilion — a person who rides the left horse of the leading or only pair of horses drawing a carriage.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postnasal — located or occurring behind the nose or in the nasopharynx, as a flow of mucus; nasopharyngeal: a postnasal infection.
- postnatal — subsequent to childbirth: postnatal infection.
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- postulata — things postulated
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.