7-letter words containing a, l, p, e
- piebald — having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored.
- pigalle — Place Pigalle.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pileate — having a pileus.
- pillage — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- pinwale — (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.
- placage — a thin facing on a building.
- placate — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- placebo — Medicine/Medical, Pharmacology. a substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine. a substance having no pharmacological effect but administered as a control in testing experimentally or clinically the efficacy of a biologically active preparation.
- placket — the opening or slit at the top of a skirt, or in a dress or blouse, that facilitates putting it on and taking it off.
- placode — a local thickening of the endoderm in the embryo, that usually constitutes the primordium of a specific structure or organ.
- plaguey — such as to plague, torment, or annoy; vexatious: a plaguy pile of debts.
- plaided — made of plaid, or having a similar pattern.
- plainer — clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.
- plaited — a braid, especially of hair or straw.
- plaiter — a person who plaits something such as wool, hair, or threads
- planate — having a plane or flat surface.
- plancer — the soffit of a cornice, especially one of wood.
- planche — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- planned — arranged, organized, or done in accordance with a plan: a planned attack.
- planner — a person who plans.
- plantae — the taxonomic kingdom comprising all plants.
- planter — a person who plants.
- plasher — a person who forms hedges by means of interweaving the branches or vines
- plashet — a small, marshy pond
- plassey — a village in NE India, about 80 miles (128 km) north of Kolkata: Clive's victory over a Bengal army here (1757) led to the establishment of British power in India.
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plataea — an ancient city in Greece, in Boeotia: Greeks defeated Persians here 479 b.c.
- plateau — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
- platted — a plait or braid.
- platter — a large, shallow dish, usually elliptical in shape, for holding and serving food, especially meat or fish.
- playlet — a short play.
- playpen — a small enclosure, usually portable, in which a young child can play safely alone without constant supervision.
- pleaded — to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
- pleader — a person who pleads, especially at law.
- pleased — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- pleaser — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- pleases — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
- pleated — fabric: in folds
- pleater — a fold of definite, even width made by doubling cloth or the like upon itself and pressing or stitching it in place.
- plectra — plectrum.
- pléiade — a group of seven French poets of the 16th cent. who favored the use of classical forms
- plenary — full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers.
- pleonal — relating to the abdomen of a crustacean
- pleroma — the state of total fullness or abundance, relating particularly to the nature of God
- pleurae — Anatomy, Zoology. a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax.
- pleural — Anatomy. of or relating to the pleura.
- pliable — easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- plumage — the entire feathery covering of a bird.