9-letter words containing p, r, o, l, i
- plainwork — simple needlework, such as hemming, as distinct from fancywork
- planiform — having a flattened shape, as an anatomical joint.
- pleiomery — the state of a flower having more than the normal number of parts
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- plexiform — of, relating to, or resembling a plexus.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- polaroids — Polaroid sunglasses
- polisario — an independence movement opposing Moroccan control of the Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory that Morocco annexed in stages beginning in 1976.
- politburo — (often lowercase) the executive committee and chief policymaking body of a Communist Party.
- polverine — a glassmaker's potash
- polymeric — of or relating to a polymer.
- poor-will — a goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, of western North America.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portatile — portable
- portfolio — a flat, portable case for carrying loose papers, drawings, etc.
- 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.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- 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.
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- pouringly — in a pouring fashion
- precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelusion — a prelude.
- probingly — with a probing approach
- proclisis — the pronunciation of a word as a proclitic
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profiling — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- 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.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- prolepsis — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- prolicide — the killing of one's child.
- prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
- prolog-ii — Prolog with two new predicates: "dif" for coroutines and "freeze" for delayed evaluation. Available from ExperIntelligence, Santa Barbara CA.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- prologize — to perform or introduce by means of a prologue
- prolusion — a preliminary written article.
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
- proselike — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general