9-letter words containing p, o, s, l
- polysemic — capable of having several possible meanings
- polysomic — of, relating to, or designating a basically diploid chromosome complement, in which some but not all the chromosomes are represented more than twice
- polystyle — having many columns.
- pompously — characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
- 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.
- 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.
- pot still — a simple and sometimes primitive type of still, used especially in the making of cognac, corn liquor, and malt Scotch whisky.
- powerless — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- prelusory — introductory.
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- procellas — pucellas.
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- proconsul — an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- profusely — spending or giving freely and in large amount, often to excess; extravagant (often followed by in): profuse praise.
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- 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.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- prolusory — serving for prolusion.
- proofless — lacking proof
- propulsor — something that provides propulsion; a propeller
- 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.
- psalmbook — a book containing psalms for liturgical or devotional use.
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.