9-letter words containing p, r, e, s, l
- gospelers — Plural form of gospeler.
- gospeller — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- grapplers — Plural form of grappler.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- graspless — (of a person's hand) having no grasp, and hence loose, relaxed, etc
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- 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.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leapfrogs — Plural form of leapfrog.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- liripipes — Plural form of liripipe.
- lypressin — Lysine vasopressin.
- 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)
- oil press — a device for extracting oil from plant material, esp. olives
- operosely — In an operose manner.
- oversleep — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- overslept — to sleep beyond the proper or intended time of waking: He overslept and missed his train.
- overspill — to spill over.
- palaestra — Greek Antiquity. palestra.
- palmister — a person telling fortunes by reading palms
- palsgrave — a German count palatine.
- paperless — a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
- par-sable — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- parallels — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paralysed — unable to move and with no feeling
- paralyses — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- parasoled — having a parasol
- parietals — the regulations that govern living within a college
- parsleyed — cooked with or sprinkled with parsley
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- pearl ash — the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- pelorised — affected by peloria
- pergolesi — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1710–36, Italian composer.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- peribolos — a colonnade or wall surrounding a Classical temple
- periclase — a cubic mineral, native magnesia, MgO, occurring usually in metamorphosed dolomite.
- perilless — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- periplasm — an outer cytoplasmic layer that surrounds the oosphere in certain fungi.
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism