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9-letter words containing p, o, t, a, l

  • pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
  • pole star — Polaris.
  • pole-star — Polaris.
  • polianite — a variety of pyrolusite, MnO 2 , having well-developed crystals.
  • political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • polka dot — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
  • pollenate — pollinate
  • pollinate — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
  • polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
  • pollutant — something that pollutes.
  • polo coat — a double-breasted, often belted overcoat made of camel's hair or a similar fabric.
  • polyantha — a type of clustering flower
  • polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
  • polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
  • polytonal — marked by or using polytonality.
  • polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
  • popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
  • populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 metal — an alloy of copper and lead, formerly used for making plumbing fixtures, bearings, etc.
  • pot plant — A pot plant is a plant which is grown in a container, especially indoors.
  • potential — possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy.
  • practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
  • precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • prelation — the setting of one above another
  • prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
  • premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
  • 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.
  • prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
  • prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
  • proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
  • protozoal — relating to protozoans
  • ptolemaic — of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  • puftaloon — a fried scone
  • pulmonate — Zoology. having lungs or lunglike organs.
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