9-letter words containing p, o, s, l
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- pianolist — a person who plays the Pianola
- pile shoe — an iron casting shaped to a point and fitted to a lower end of a wooden or concrete pile
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
- 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.
- plainsong — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- 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.
- platforms — a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.
- platinous — containing bivalent platinum.
- platonism — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- platonist — the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
- playhouse — a theater.
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- plimsolls — lightweight canvas shoes with rubber soles; sneakers
- plotinism — the Neoplatonism of Plotinus.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- plumbeous — resembling or containing lead; leaden.
- plumulose — shaped like a downy feather or plumule.
- plutonism — the intrusion of magma and associated deep-seated processes within the earth's crust.
- podsolize — to make into podsol.
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polisario — an independence movement opposing Moroccan control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory that Morocco annexed in stages beginning in 1976.
- polish up — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
- pollusion — a word used by a comic character in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost to mean "allusion"
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- polonaise — a slow dance of Polish origin, in triple meter, consisting chiefly of a march or promenade in couples.
- polybasic — (of an acid) having two or more atoms of replaceable hydrogen.
- polydorus — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek sculptor who, with Agesander and Athenodorus, carved the Laocoön group.
- polyester — Chemistry. a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the group –COO–, usually formed by polymerizing a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, plastics, and textile fibers.
- polygenes — multiple factors
- polynesia — one of the three principal divisions of Oceania, comprising those island groups in the Pacific lying E of Melanesia and Micronesia and extending from the Hawaiian Islands S to New Zealand.
- polynices — a son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Eteocles and Antigone on whose behalf the Seven against Thebes were organized.
- polyphase — having more than one phase.
- polyposis — the development of numerous polyps on a hollow internal organ, seen especially in the intestinal tract.