9-letter words containing p, u, l, s
- espousals — Plural form of espousal.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- expulsing — Present participle of expulse.
- expulsion — The action of depriving someone of membership in an organization.
- expulsive — Tending to expel or resulting in expulsion.
- fireplugs — Plural form of fireplug.
- flip-spur — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- flophouse — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
- flue stop — a rank of flue pipes in an organ.
- fluorspar — fluorite.
- followups — the act of following up.
- full stop — period (defs 10, 11).
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.
- larkspurs — Plural form of larkspur.
- leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- leucippus — 5th century bc Greek philosopher, who originated the atomist theory of matter, developed by his disciple, Democritus
- listen up — pay attention, listen
- longspurs — Plural form of longspur.
- loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- lumpenism — Lumpen beliefs or behaviour.
- lumpiness — full of lumps: lumpy gravy.
- lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
- 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.
- monopulse — a radar transmitting a single pulse only
- mud-flaps — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
- 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.
- multiples — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
- multistep — Involving multiple steps.
- mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
- 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)
- nonplused — to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
- nonpluses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nonplus.
- nonpulsed — Not pulsed.
- nonuplets — Plural form of nonuplet.
- nullspace — (math) The kernel of a linear map between two vector spaces or two modules.
- octuplets — Plural form of octuplet.
- opelousas — a city in S Louisiana.
- opuscules — Plural form of opuscule.