9-letter words containing s, t, e, p, l
- peristyle — a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
- pestology — the analysis and research of pests and how to get rid of them
- petaflops — (unit) 10^15 flops or 1000 teraflops. As with flops, the term ends in S in both the singular and plural as the S stands for seconds. The first computer to perform one petaflops was recorded in June 2008. By June 2012 there were 20.
- phlebitis — inflammation of a vein, often occurring in the legs and involving the formation of a thrombus, characterized by swelling, pain, and change of skin color.
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- pilotless — lacking a pilot or needing no pilot: pilotless aircraft.
- pistoleer — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pistolero — a member of an armed band of roving mounted bandits.
- pistolier — a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- pit scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- plantless — having no plants
- plantlets — a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
- plastered — drunk.
- plasterer — builder or decorator who applies plaster
- plastique — a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
- plateless — a shallow, usually circular dish, often of earthenware or porcelain, from which food is eaten.
- platelets — a small platelike body, especially a blood platelet.
- pleatless — having no pleats
- plenteous — plentiful; copious; abundant: a plenteous supply of food.
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pleoptics — the practice of treating the vision defect amblyopia.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- pointless — without a point: a pointless pen.
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- politesse — formal politeness; courtesy.
- 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.
- polystyle — having many columns.
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postiller — a writer of postils; an annotator
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- prelatess — a female prelate
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- preselect — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- presently — in a little while; soon: They will be here presently.
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- presettle — to settle ahead of
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- printless — making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- ptolemies — (Claudius Ptolemaeus) flourished a.d. 127–151, Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.