9-letter words containing p, o, l
- geophilic — soil-loving
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- glass pox — alastrim, or mild smallpox.
- glory-pea — either of two trailing plants, Clianthus formosus or C. puniceus, of Australia and New Zealand, having showy red flowers.
- glow lamp — a vacuum tube containing a gas that is ionized by the electrons, giving a visible glow.
- glow plug — a device for each cylinder of a diesel engine with a heating element to heat the incoming fuel and air so that combustion will take place more readily when the engine is cold.
- go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- go postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- go public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- goal post — either of the two vertical posts that support a crossbar and form the opening of a goal in soccer, hockey, etc.
- goalposts — Plural form of goalpost.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
- gold pool — the representatives of the UK, the US, France, Switzerland, West Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg who, between 1961 and 1968, unsuccessfully attempted to fix the price of gold at $35 per ounce
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- gospelers — Plural form of gospeler.
- gospelise — evangelise
- gospelize — Preach the Gospel to; convert to Christianity.
- gospeller — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- gowpenful — an amount that can be contained in cupped hands
- grassplot — a plot of ground covered with or reserved for grass.
- gropingly — In a groping manner; blindly.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- gulp down — food, drink: swallow quickly
- gyropilot — automatic pilot.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- haplology — the omission of one of two similar adjacent syllables or sounds in a word, as in substituting morphonemic for morphophonemic or in the pronunciation [prob-lee] /ˈprɒb li/ (Show IPA) for probably.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helipilot — a helicopter pilot
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- helm port — the opening at the stern of a ship, through which a rudderstock passes.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- heptaglot — a book written in seven languages
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- hippology — the study of horses.
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.