9-letter words containing p, o, l
- bookplate — A bookplate is a piece of decorated paper which is stuck in the front of a book and on which the owner's name is printed or written.
- bottle up — If you bottle up strong feelings, you do not express them or show them, especially when this makes you tense or angry.
- box pleat — a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it
- bubbletop — a transparent dome, usually made of plastic or bulletproof glass, that serves as the roof or part of the roof of an automotive vehicle.
- bull rope — any of various ropes for holding objects to prevent them from rubbing against or striking other objects.
- bumpology — phrenology
- busy-loop — tight loop
- cajeputol — cineole.
- cajuputol — a colorless, oily, slightly water-soluble liquid terpene ether, C 10 H 18 O, having a camphorlike odor and a pungent, spicy, cooling taste, found in eucalyptus, cajeput, and other essential oils: used in flavoring, perfumery, and medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
- call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- calliopes — Plural form of calliope.
- calotypes — Plural form of calotype.
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campstool — a lightweight folding stool
- cantalope — Misspelling of cantaloupe.
- cap cloud — a stationary cloud directly above an isolated mountain peak. Compare banner cloud, crest cloud.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
- carpology — the branch of botany concerned with the study of fruits and seeds
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cesspools — Plural form of cesspool.
- chilopods — Plural form of chilopod.
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- choplogic — excessively complicated argument
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- clapboard — A clapboard building has walls which are covered with long narrow pieces of wood, usually painted white.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clip bond — a form of brickwork raking bond for a facing of all stretchers, in which the stretchers are tied in to the backing every few courses by diagonally set bricks that project from the backing into angles made by cutting off the concealed corners of the face brick.
- clip-clop — the sound made by a horse's hooves
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clodpated — stupid
- clonotype — (taxonomy) A herbarium specimen made from plants vegetatively propagated from (and thus clones of) the same plant from which a type specimen was made.
- clop-clop — a clattering sound of repeated clops.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- clozapine — a sedative used to treat schizophrenia
- codevelop — to develop jointly
- cold pack — a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
- cold pole — the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.