9-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i
- fire-plow — a stick that is rubbed in a wooden groove to produce sparks for igniting a fire.
- fireplace — the part of a chimney that opens into a room and in which fuel is burned; hearth.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- flip over — turn upside down
- grapelice — lice that are destructive to grape plants
- grapelike — Resembling a grape or some aspect of grapes.
- grapeline — grapnel.
- grappelli — Stéphane (ˈstɛfən) 1908–97, French jazz violinist: with Django Reinhardt, he led the Quintet of the Hot Club of France between 1934 and 1939
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- impearled — Simple past tense and past participle of impearl.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- imperical — A mirror\u2013nearer merger misspelling of empirical.
- imperiled — to put in peril or danger; endanger.
- 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.
- impurpled — Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interloop — Between loops.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- interplay — reciprocal relationship, action, or influence: the interplay of plot and character.
- interpled — having instituted interpleader proceedings
- iprindole — a tricyclic antidepressant drug. Formula: C19H28N2
- kraepelin — Emil [ey-meel] /ˈeɪ mil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.
- lamproite — (geology) Any of several volcanic rocks having a high potassium content.
- leporidae — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lie group — a topological group that is a manifold.
- life peer — a peer whose title ceases at death; nonhereditary peer.
- limber up — characterized by ease in bending the body; supple; lithe.
- line drop — the decrease in voltage between two points on an electric line, often caused by resistance or leakage along the line.
- linotyper — a person who uses a Linotype printing machine
- liripipes — Plural form of liripipe.
- live trap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- liverpool — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- lone pair — shoes, eyes
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- malipiero — Gian Francesco [jahn frahn-che-skaw] /dʒɑn frɑnˈtʃɛ skɔ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1973, Italian composer.
- micropyle — Zoology. any minute opening in an ovum through which a spermatozoon can enter, as in many insects.
- millepore — a coralline hydrozoan of the genus Millepora, having a smooth calcareous surface with many perforations.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nelspruit — a city in NE South Africa, the capital of Mpumalanga province on the Crocodile River: trading and agricultural centre, esp for fruit, with a growing tourist trade. Pop: 21 541 (2001)
- neuropile — Alternative form of neuropil.
- nonpareil — having no equal; peerless.
- nullipore — any of the coralline algae with a crustlike plant body.
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives