9-letter words containing p, r, e, a, l
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- implanter — Someone or something that implants.
- impleader — a procedural method by which an original party to an action may bring in and make a claim against a third party in connection with the claim made against the original party.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- kelp crab — any of several spider crabs common among kelp beds along the Pacific coast of North America.
- kleopatra — Cleopatra (def 2).
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- la trappe — La Trappe.
- lager top — a pint or half-pint of lager with a dash of lemonade
- lampooner — Someone who lampoons; someone who pokes fun.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- laplander — Also called Laplander [lap-lan-der, -luh n-] /ˈlæpˌlæn dər, -lən-/ (Show IPA). a member of a Finnic people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and adjacent regions.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- large-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leakproof — designed to prevent leaking: a leakproof bottle.
- leap year — (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leporidae — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- loo paper — toilet paper
- lop-eared — having ears that droop or hang down.
- lorazepam — a benzodiazepine drug, C 15 H 10 Cl 2 N 2 O 2 , used chiefly in the management of acute anxiety and for insomnia.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- md-player — a machine on which you can play minidiscs
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nonplayer — a person that is not playing
- oil-paper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
- on parole — If a prisoner is on parole, he or she is released before the official end of their prison sentence and will not be sent back to prison if their behaviour is good.
- operantly — In an operant manner.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- over-plan — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overapply — To apply to excess.
- overpedal — to play (the piano) with excessive use of the pedals