9-letter words containing p, r, o, l, e, t
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- polyester — Chemistry. a polymer in which the monomer units are linked together by the group –COO–, usually formed by polymerizing a polyhydric alcohol with a polybasic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of resins, plastics, and textile fibers.
- polyether — a polymeric ether.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portatile — portable
- portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- potholder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- 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.
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- pyrolater — a worshipper of fire
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- repletion — the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
- replotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- reptiloid — having the form or shape of a reptile
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportless — without any sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
- trollopee — a loose dress or gown worn in the 18th century by women
- tropeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- turcopole — during the Crusades, a type of lightly armed and low-ranking soldier belonging to the Order of St John of Jerusalem, used mainly as mounted archers and scouts
- turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
- underplot — a plot subordinate to another plot, as in a novel.
- upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.