9-letter words containing p, o, l
- apologies — a written or spoken expression of one's regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another: He demanded an apology from me for calling him a crook.
- apologise — to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure, or injury: He apologized for accusing her falsely.
- apologist — An apologist is a person who writes or speaks in defence of a belief, a cause, or a person's life.
- apologize — When you apologize to someone, you say that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them. You can say 'I apologize' as a formal way of saying sorry.
- apologues — Plural form of apologue.
- apostille — a marginal annotation or note.
- apostolic — Apostolic means belonging or relating to a Christian religious leader, especially the Pope.
- apostolos — a book containing parts of the Epistles and parts of the Acts of the Apostles.
- appaloosa — a breed of horse, originally from America, typically having a spotted rump
- apple box — an ornamental Australian tree, Eucalyptus bridgesiana, having heart-shaped juvenile leaves, large lanceolate adult leaves, and conical fruits
- applewood — The timber of the apple tree, used in carpentry and to smoke food.
- apposable — capable of being apposed or brought into apposition
- approvals — Plural form of approval.
- apronfuls — Plural form of apronful.
- apronlike — resembling an apron
- apsidiole — a secondary, or small, apse
- asepalous — (of a plant or flower) having no sepals
- asphodels — Plural form of asphodel.
- atemporal — having the quality of being uninfluenced, ungoverned or unchanged by time
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- autopilot — automatic pilot
- autoplast — autograft.
- autoreply — a facility for sending automated replies to email messages
- b complex — vitamin B (complex)
- ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
- bargepole — a long pole used to propel a barge
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophils — Plural form of basophil.
- beanpoles — Plural form of beanpole.
- bell rope — a rope attached to a bell
- below par — If you say that someone or something is below par or under par, you are disappointed in them because they are below the standard you expected.
- belt loop — a loop through which a belt is threaded
- binprolog — (language) Probably the fastest freely available C-emulated Prolog. BinProlog features: logical and permanent global variables; backtrackable destructive assignment; circular term unification; extended DCGs (now built into the engine as "invisible grammars"); intuitionistic and linear implication based hypothetical reasoning; a Tcl/Tk interface. Version 3.30 runs on SPARC/Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x; DEC Alpha 64-bit version; DEC MIPS; SGI MIPS; 68k - NeXT, Sun-3; IBM RS6000; HP PA-RISC (two variants); Intel 80386, Intel 486/Linux, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (with DOS-extender go32 v1.10). E-mail: Paul Tarau <[email protected]>.
- biophilia — an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- blackpoll — a North American warbler, Dendroica striata, the male of which has a black-and-white head
- blackpool — a town and resort in NW England, in Blackpool unitary authority, Lancashire on the Irish Sea: famous for its tower, 158 m (518 ft) high, and its illuminations. Pop: 142 283 (2001)
- bleep out — In a television or radio programme, when someone bleeps out an offensive word, they use an electronic device to make the sound of a bleep so that people cannot hear the word.
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- blimp out — to become greatly overweight
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- blow past — To blow out despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer."
- blow-pipe — a tube through which a stream of air or gas is forced into a flame to concentrate and increase its heating action.
- bluepoint — a type of small oyster named after Blue Point, New York
- bode plot — A Bode plot is the graph of amplitude (in decibels) and phase against frequency (in logarithmic format).
- body plan — Biology. the basic shape of members of an animal phylum; the general structure each individual organism assumes as it develops. Compare bilateral symmetry, radial symmetry.
- bold type — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in a dictionary
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer