9-letter words containing p, u, i, l
- marsupial — any viviparous, nonplacental mammal of the order Marsupialia, comprising the opossums, kangaroos, wombats, and bandicoots, the females of most species having a marsupium containing the mammary glands and serving as a receptacle for the young.
- multi-ply — having or composed of several plies: a multi-ply fabric.
- multicopy — any of several or many copies (of a book, document, record, etc)
- multilisp — (language) A parallel extension of Scheme with explicit concurrency. The form (future X) immediately returns a "future", and creates a task to evaluate X. When the evaluation is complete, the future is resolved to be the value.
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- multipage — Including or containing multiple pages.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- multipart — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- multipion — involving several or many pions
- multiplay — Denoting a compact disc player that can be stacked with a number of discs before needing to be reloaded.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multiplet — a group of several related spectral lines, usually of nearly the same wavelengths.
- multiplex — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multipole — (physics) Any of a several forms of static or oscillating distributions of charge or magnetization.
- multiport — Computers. having more than one port.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- nauplioid — of or relating to the first stage in the development of a freshly hatched nauplius larva
- 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.
- nonpublic — Not open or available to the public.
- nullipara — a woman who has never borne a child.
- nullipore — any of the coralline algae with a crustlike plant body.
- octupling — Present participle of octuple.
- out-pupil — a student sent to a different school than the one he or she would normally attend
- painfully — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- palanquin — (formerly in India and other Eastern countries) a passenger conveyance, usually for one person, consisting of a covered or boxlike litter carried by means of poles resting on the shoulders of several men.
- palladium — a rare metallic element of the platinum group, silver-white, ductile and malleable, harder and fusing more readily than platinum: used chiefly as a catalyst and in dental and other alloys. Symbol: Pd; atomic weight: 106.4; atomic number: 46; specific gravity: 12 at 20°C.
- paludrine — proguanil hydrochloride, a synthetic antimalarial drug first produced in 1944
- papillule — a mini papilla
- pasquiler — a person who lampoons or pasquinades; a satirist
- patchouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- paulinism — the body of theological doctrine taught by or attributed to the apostle Paul.
- paulownia — a Japanese tree, Paulownia tomentosa, of the bignonia family, having showy clusters of pale-violet or blue flowers blossoming in early spring.
- pausingly — with a pause or pauses
- pedicular — of or relating to lice.
- pediculus — a louse
- penduline — (of a bird's nest) hanging; resembling a pendant
- peninsula — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
- penultima — the next to the last syllable in a word.
- petiolule — a small petiole, as of a leaflet in a compound leaf.
- philippus — a gold coin of ancient Greece, originally issued by Philip II of Macedon.
- pillsbury — Charles Alfred, 1842–99, U.S. businessman.
- pilsudski — Józef [yoo-zef] /ˈyu zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1867–1935, Polish marshal and statesman: president 1918–22; premier 1926–28, 1930.
- pinnulate — having pinnules.
- pitifully — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- plaintful — complaining or lamenting
- planuloid — relating to a planula