9-letter words containing t, r, o, p, l
- posttrial — Law. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law.
- potboiler — a mediocre work of literature or art produced merely for financial gain.
- potholder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- potlicker — Midland and Southern U.S. Eye Dialect. pot liquor.
- poulterer — a dealer in poultry, hares, and game; poultryman.
- practolol — a beta-blocker with formula C14H22N2O3, formerly used to treat cardiac arrhythmia, but now largely withdrawn due to severe side-effects
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- premortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- proclitic — (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the following word and not having an independent accent or phonological status.
- profilist — a person who creates a profile
- profluent — flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- proleptic — Rhetoric. the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- prolixity — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
- prologist — a prologue writer or performer
- propylite — a hydrothermally altered andesite or allied rock containing secondary minerals, as calcite, chlorite, serpentine, or epidote.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- protocols — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- protozoal — relating to protozoans
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- pyrolater — a worshipper of fire
- pyrolatry — the worship of fire
- rantipole — wild, reckless, boisterous
- raptorial — preying upon other animals; predatory.
- repletion — the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.
- replotted — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
- reptiloid — having the form or shape of a reptile
- rotaplane — an aircraft that derives its lift from freely revolving rotor blades
- sallyport — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salt pork — pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in sport
- sportless — without any sport
- sporulate — to produce spores.
- stavropol — a territory of the Russian Federation in Europe, N of the Caucasus. 29,600 sq. mi. (76,960 sq. km).
- strap-oil — a beating
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- terpineol — any of several unsaturated, cyclic, tertiary alcohols having the formula C 10 H 18 O, occurring in nature in many essential oils or prepared synthetically: used chiefly in the manufacture of perfumes.
- top floor — highest storey of a building
- top-liner — an entertainer who is important enough to be the star of a show
- tripleton — (especially in bridge) a set of three cards of the same suit in a hand as dealt.
- triploidy — the condition of being triploid