9-letter words containing p, o, r, l
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- pro-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- procellas — pucellas.
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- prolepses — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- prolicide — the killing of one's child.
- prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
- prolog-ii — Prolog with two new predicates: "dif" for coroutines and "freeze" for delayed evaluation. Available from ExperIntelligence, Santa Barbara CA.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prologize — to perform or introduce by means of a prologue
- prolonged — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- prolusory — serving for prolusion.
- proofless — lacking proof
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- propelled — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- propeller — a device having a revolving hub with radiating blades, for propelling an airplane, ship, etc.
- propulsor — something that provides propulsion; a propeller
- propylene — containing the propylene group.
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- prosopyle — (in sponges) a pore through which water is drawn from the outside into one of the saclike chambers formed by the evagination of the body wall.
- protocols — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- protozoal — relating to protozoans
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provolone — a mellow light-colored, Italian cheese, usually smoked after drying.
- prowl car — squad car.
- pull cord — a cord attached to a blind, light switch, appliance, curtain etc which is pulled to operate it