9-letter words containing t, e, a, s, l
- past life — previous incarnation
- pastelist — an artist who draws with pastels.
- pastorale — an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
- pectorals — of, in, on, or pertaining to the chest or breast; thoracic.
- penalties — a punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- periblast — the protoplasm surrounding the blastoderm in meroblastic eggs
- periplast — the hard and plated cell wall of a single-celled organism
- 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.
- 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
- pleonaste — a type of blackish mineral
- pole mast — a mast on a sailing vessel, consisting of a single piece without separate upper masts.
- pole star — Polaris.
- pole-star — Polaris.
- postulate — to ask, demand, or claim.
- prelatess — a female prelate
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- preseptal — of or relating to a septum.
- psaltress — a woman who plays the psaltery
- pulsatile — pulsating; throbbing.
- pulsative — throbbing; pulsating.
- pulsebeat — pulse1 (def 1).
- pustulate — to cause to form pustules.
- qualities — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
- quantiles — Plural form of quantile.
- quartiles — Plural form of quartile.
- realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- reinstall — to place in position or connect for service or use: to install a heating system; to install software on a computer.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- relatives — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- replaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- resultant — that results; following as a result or consequence.
- retailers — the sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities (opposed to wholesale).
- rijstafel — an assortment of Indonesian side dishes accompanied by rice
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- sacculate — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saleratus — sodium bicarbonate used in cookery; baking soda.
- sales tax — a tax on receipts from sales, usually added to the selling price by the seller.
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saliently — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
- salimeter — salinometer.