9-letter words containing l, a, p, o, r
- pro-labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- procellas — pucellas.
- prodromal — a premonitory symptom.
- profamily — favoring or supporting laws against abortion; antiabortion; pro-life.
- profanely — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prolabour — favouring an organized labour movement
- 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.
- prolamine — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolapsus — prolapse.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- prolative — functioning to complete the predicate
- proletary — in ancient Rome, a member of the lowest class of citizens, who had no property
- propagule — Botany, Mycology. any structure capable of being propagated or acting as an agent of reproduction.
- prosocial — acting to the benefit of society in general
- prosodial — of or relating to prosody
- protozoal — relating to protozoans
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- prowl car — squad car.
- pulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- pulpboard — a board made from pulpwood.
- pulsatory — pulsating or throbbing.
- pyelogram — an x-ray produced by pyelography.
- pyridoxal — a naturally occurring derivative of pyridoxine that is a precursor of a coenzyme (pyridoxal phosphate) involved in several enzymic reactions. Formula: (CH2OH)(CHO)C5HN(OH)(CH3)
- 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.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- role play — playacting, simulation
- role-play — to assume the attitudes, actions, and discourse of (another), especially in a make-believe situation in an effort to understand a differing point of view or social interaction: Management trainees were given a chance to role-play labor negotiators.
- 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.
- saprobial — relating to saprobity
- saprolite — soft, disintegrated, usually more or less decomposed rock remaining in its original place.
- scalloper — a person or thing that scallops.
- slip road — A slip road is a road which cars use to drive on and off a motorway.
- snap roll — a manoeuvre in which an aircraft makes a fast roll
- snap-roll — to put (an airplane) through the maneuver of a snap roll.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- sporidial — relating or belonging to one or more sporidia
- sporozoal — belonging or relating to Sporozoa
- sportable — capable of being sported or used in 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
- swordplay — the action or technique of wielding a sword; fencing.
- teraflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.
- ultraposh — extremely posh