9-letter words containing t, p, l, a
- diplomata — Plural form of diploma.
- diplomate — a person who has received a diploma, especially a doctor, engineer, etc., who has been certified as a specialist by a board within the appropriate profession.
- diplomats — Plural form of diplomat.
- doorplate — a small identification plate on the outside door of a house or room, bearing the occupant's name, the apartment or house number, or the like.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- dry plate — a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in gelatin.
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.
- duplicate — a copy exactly like an original.
- dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
- eclamptic — Of or pertaining to eclampsia.
- ectoplasm — Biology. the outer portion of the cytoplasm of a cell. Compare endoplasm.
- eggplants — Plural form of eggplant.
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- emplaster — a plaster
- emplastic — adhesive
- emptional — Capable of being purchased.
- end plate — the area of specialized tissue that forms the junction between an individual muscle fiber and its motor nerve
- epauleted — Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.
- epaulette — An ornamentation, worn on the shoulders of a military uniform, as a sign of rank.
- epeolatry — the worship of words
- ephialtes — (obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epilating — Present participle of epilate.
- epilation — The removal of hair by the roots.
- epilators — Plural form of epilator.
- epitaxial — Of, pertaining to, or employing epitaxy.
- epithecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the epitheca, the upper half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- epithelia — Plural form of epithelium.
- epulation — the act of feasting
- etioplast — (biology) A chloroplast that has never been exposed to light.
- eucalypti — Plural form of eucalyptus.
- eucalypts — Plural form of eucalypt.
- euplastic — healing quickly and well
- eutrapely — conversational skill
- exculpate — Show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing.
- exoplanet — A planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.
- expellant — forcing out or having the capacity to force out
- explanted — Simple past tense and past participle of explant.
- explicate — Analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail.
- explorate — (obsolete) To explore.
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceplate — (on a lathe) a perforated plate, mounted on the live spindle, to which the work is attached.
- fall trap — a trap into which animals fall
- feldspath — Alternative form of feldspar.
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- flag stop — a bus stop at which a bus only stops if there is someone waiting or if someone wants to get off the bus
- flaptrack — (in an aircraft wing) a track along which the wing flap runs when it is being deployed
- flat pack — Flat pack furniture is furniture such as shelves and cupboards which you buy as a number of separate pieces and assemble yourself.
- flat spin — an aircraft spin in which the longitudinal axis is more nearly horizontal than vertical
- flat spot — a region of poor acceleration over a narrow range of throttle openings, caused by a weak mixture in the carburettor