9-letter words containing r, e, p, a, l
- plastered — drunk.
- plasterer — builder or decorator who applies plaster
- platemark — hallmark.
- plateware — household dishes, especially ones made of or plated with gold or silver.
- playmaker — an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- pleasured — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- pleasurer — a person who seeks pleasure
- pleasures — the state or feeling of being pleased.
- plein-air — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- plicature — the act or procedure of folding.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- pluralize — to express in the plural form; make plural: to pluralize a noun.
- polarised — to cause polarization in.
- polarized — of or relating to a medium that exhibits polarization.
- polarizer — a person or thing that polarizes.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polltaker — a person or organization that conducts polls; pollster.
- polywater — a subtance mistakenly identified as a polymeric form of water, now known to be water containing ions from glass or quartz.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portatile — portable
- powerplay — behaviour intended to maximise person's power
- praeludia — musical preludes
- praiseful — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prayerful — given to, characterized by, or expressive of prayer; devout.
- pre-alarm — an automatic device that serves to call attention, to rouse from sleep, or to warn of fire, smoke, an intruder, etc.
- pre-clean — free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress.
- pre-lease — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- preambled — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- prebattle — existing, occurring or carried out in the period before a battle
- prebuttal — an argument constructed in anticipation of a criticism: The alderman began his speech with a question-answer style prebuttal.
- precancel — to cancel (a stamp) before placing it on a piece of postal matter.
- precaudal — in front of the tail or caudal vertebrae of an animal
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- 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.
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- prefeudal — of the period before the feudal era
- pregnable — capable of being taken or won by force: a pregnable fortress.
- prehallux — (of some mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) an undeveloped digit growing on the inner side of a hind limb
- prehandle — to handle beforehand
- prelatess — a female prelate
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.